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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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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Away
Widen
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Spin
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Compass
Always
Attached
Wind
Feet

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