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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

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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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Sustenance
Technological
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Protection
Innovation
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Expendable

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