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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

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