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Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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