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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Ally Condie

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Ally Condie
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cedar City
Utah
Beauty
Future
Experience
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Dystopia
Power
Vicariously
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Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.
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