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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

Thomas Harris

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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
Author
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Jackson
Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
Penalty
Penalties
Price
Imagination
Fear
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