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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

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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
Dissolve
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Earnestness

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