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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

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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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Turns
Heart
Shreds
Torn

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