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And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you? he says. Mostly the same, I say. People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

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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
Things
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World
Seem
People
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War
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Divided
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