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feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

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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
Firsts
Tobias
First
Brushing
Feel
Brave
Feels
Telling
Hair
Hear
Mother
Back
Simulation

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