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Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
Kathy Reichs
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Kathy Reichs
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 7
Academic
Anthropologist
Crime Writer
Forensic Anthropologist
Novelist
Professor
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Television Producer
Chicago
Illinois
Kathleen Joan Toelle
Kathleen Reichs
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