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I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Upstairs
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Nostrils

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