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But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Suffering
Pain
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Doe
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Hurts
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