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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Hard
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Fierce
Love
Knew
Wrong
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Right

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