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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

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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People
Terrify
Safety
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