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What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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