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I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

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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
Wish
Always
Says
Alone
Almost

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