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I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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Veronica Anne Roth
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