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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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