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The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

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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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