You know what I noticed when ...

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There\'s the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You\'ve got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.
You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.
 Jodi Picoult

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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
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