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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

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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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Love
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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