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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

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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
Moments
World
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Looking
Freedom
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