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  • If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

    "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.