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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Patricia Cornwell
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Patricia Cornwell
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: June 9
Art Collector
Crime Writer
Journalist
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Miami
Florida
Patricia Carroll Daniels
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Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
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Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
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The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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