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Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you? Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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