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I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?

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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
Acting
Dauntless
Two
Avoiding
Doe
Costs
Years
Suddenly
Like
Cost
Becoming
Leader
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