“You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. That's interesting you should ask that, because I've never seen angels around bad people.”

— Sylvia Browne

May 16, 2003 Larry King Live, CNN interview http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/lkl.00.html

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American author 1936–2013

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