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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

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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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Past
Seeds
Bear
Fruit
Bears

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