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All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Whole
Life
Upside
Turned
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Struggle

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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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