"Death is my beat. I make my living from it."
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"Because the reports were in chronological order, I could see how theories were considered and discarded."
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"Riley looked as if she had aged 10 years since I had seen her at the funeral."
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"The Denver papers were feeders for the bigger dailies in New York in L.A. and Chicago and Washington. I probably should've moved on long ago and even turned down an offer with the L.A. Times few years back."
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"That night, my dream came back. The only recurring nightmare of my entire life."
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"I sat on the edge of the bed watching CNN for a half-hour, hoping to see the report she had mentioned or anything to take my mind off the disastrous end of the night."
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"It was the kind of situation where the suitor asks the bride-to-be's...