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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.

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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
Free
Makes
Thought
Feel
Negligible
Feels
Breaths
Something
Strange
Small
Almost

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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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