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Someone shouts, Enough! and I think too much and nothing at all.

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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
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Thinking
Shouts
Someone
Nothing
Enough

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