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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Sound
Men
Patient
Flower
Cutting
Waiting
Dies

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