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I was born for abegnation. i was planning on leaving dauntless, and becoming factionless. but then i met 'her', and...i felt like maybe i could make something more of my decision.
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I Was Born For Abegnation. I Was

Veronica Roth
I was born for abegnation. i was planning on leaving dauntless, and becoming factionless. but then i met 'her', and...i felt like maybe i could make something more of my decision.
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Dauntless,' he says. 'i was born for abnegation. i was planning on leaving dauntless, and becoming factionless. but then i met her, and...i felt like maybe i could make something more of my decision.' her. for a moment, it's like i'm looking at a different person, sitting in tobias's skin, one whose life is not as simple as i thought. he wanted to leave dauntless, but he stayed because of me. he never told me that.
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Abnegation produces deeply serious people. people who automatically see things like need,” he says. “i’ve noticed that when people switch to dauntless, it creates some of the same types. erudite who switch to dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. candor who switch to dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. and abnegation who switch to dauntless become . . . i don’t know, soldiers, i guess. revolutionaries.
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