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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
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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