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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

Gillian Flynn

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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
Knew
Small
Tripped
Place
Suffocating
Every
Town
Kind
Hated
Things
Leaves
People
Towns
Mark

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