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If I don't survive, I say, tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

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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
Leave
Tell
Didn
Tobias
Survive

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