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I still doubt it will work. You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day, Raoden said with a smile.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
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