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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

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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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Baby
Either
Forever
Winning
Fetus
Pain
Ache
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Abortion
Wear

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