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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

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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
Believe
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Depressing
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Pastry
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