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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Jodi Picoult

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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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Abhor
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Coexistence
Place
Wears
Live
Passes
Everything
Exception
Come
Tolerance
Enough
Forgiveness
Something
Eventually

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