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If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
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