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I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Thinking
Ghosts
Ghost
Finally
Think

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