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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, I say. Controlling you is.

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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
Thing
Insurgent
Controlling
Killing
Worst

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