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For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters.

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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
Stiff
Heavy
Small
Someone
Mutters

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