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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
Winning
Fetus
Pain
Ache
Keep
Abortion
Wear
Outside
Baby
Either
Forever

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