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I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.

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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
Around
Uniforms
Homogeneity
Mind
Settle
Hive
Believe
Settling
Abnegation
Always
Pace
Projecting
People
Ears
Hives
Choose
Pounding
Feet
Uniform
Makes
Outward
Subsumed

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