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I don’t want her to have a cat because she’ll end up talking baby talk to the cat. That’s the way it is, and how can a P.I. do that?

— Sue Grafton

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New York Times, p. C10 (August 4, 1994)

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No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

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