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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

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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
Divergent
Loaded
Holding
Idiot
Gun
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