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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Veronica Anne Roth
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Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton
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