It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and t…

Jodi Picoult
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes, p.434, Simon and Schuster
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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