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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Distance
Uncomfortable
Keeping

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