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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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