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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

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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
Blind
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Better
Never
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Tobias
Brokenness
Desperation

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