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The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.

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Patricia Cornwell
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: June 9
Art Collector
Crime Writer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Miami
Florida
Patricia Carroll Daniels
Fear
Never
Bothered
Dead
Living

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