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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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People
Changed
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Thought
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