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With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Safe
Semantics
Eyes
Shrugged
Eye
Corrected
Woman
Gently
Father
Ladies
Hands
Hunting
World
Starts
Dear
Courting

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