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You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Logic
Nothing
Self
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Congratulatory
Exhaustive

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