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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

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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
Broken
Particular
Challenges
Home
Hard
Children
Charmed
People
Marriages
Homes

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