If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them st…

Jodi Picoult
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls, p.804, Simon and Schuster
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