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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

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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
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I love you. He frowns. Say it again. Tobias, I say. I love you.
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