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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Heart
Realize
Splinters
Trying
Return
Wedges
Love
Realizing
Charlotte
People
Hurt
Wounded
Maybe
Guilt
Dark
Shots
Felt
Protect
Splinter
Take
Late
Wedge

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