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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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