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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Patricia Cornwell

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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
Taken
Body
Never
Scalpel
Scalpels
Dead

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