Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your li…

Jodi Picoult
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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). Lone Wolf: A Novel, p.73, Simon and Schuster
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