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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

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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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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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