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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

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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
Shrink
Shrinks
Ordinary
Strange
Place
Make
Time
Strangeness

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