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Cannot get cookie counter to increment

My assignment requires that I show how many times a user has visited the site by using a cookie to count in Perl.  Although cookies are very simple, for some reason, I can not get my cookie to count past 1.  I have compared my information to online sources and it all looks correct, but not matter what it doesn't work.  Please view my code below.  Thank you! 
#retreive count cookie
$count = cookie('Count');
 
$count++; (there are two plus signs here but for some reason the preview isn't showing them)
 
#there is a name cookie created here as well
$C_count = cookie(-name => "Count",
                               -value => "$count",
                               -expires => "+6M");
 
print header(-cookie => $C_name, $C_count);

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Ah ha!  Thank you so much!  I actually need that other cookie in there to be printed (it is a different part of the code) but because you pointed out that portion of the code, when I removed the name cookie, it worked.  Then I realized that I had the code wrong for sending more than one cookie to the browser.  To send more than one cookie to the browser, the code is:  
print header(-cookie => [$C_name, $C_count]);

Thank you!