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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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