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I would have done anything to feel real again.

Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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