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Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Hear
Horn
Eyes
Faint
Eye
Horns
Sound
Sounds
Like
Calling
Alleyway
Train
Alleyways
Meet
Dauntless
Wind
Whistling

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