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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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