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If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Beard
Positive
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Seduction
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