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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Jodi Picoult
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1966; activity date not established; Wikidata Q234443, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234443 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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