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in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Mile
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Oil
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Revenge
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Hem
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Nineteen

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