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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

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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
Feeling
Waiting
Lying
Feelings
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Prepare
Wait
Worst

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