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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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