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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

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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Shadow
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Surely
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