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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

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