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What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

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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
Someone
Exiled
Handed
Idle
Worse
Empty
Dies

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