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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Stop
Looking
Lost
Wolves
Come
Lone
Time
Instead
Focus
Knew

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