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People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
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Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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