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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton
Veronica Roth
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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters.
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