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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.
– Jodi Picoult

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