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Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Veronica Roth

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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
Abnegation
Blinds
Pride
Truth
People

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