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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
Eye
Horns
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Sounds
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Calling
Alleyway
Train
Alleyways
Meet
Dauntless
Wind
Whistling
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Horn
Eyes
Faint

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