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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

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