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You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

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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
Live
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Choices
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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
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Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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