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Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Mutually
Exclusive
Legal
Forgiveness
Punishment
Says
Spiritual

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