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I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
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Words
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