Gone-Girl-by-Gillian-Flynn

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To Brett: light of my life, senior and <strong>Flynn</strong>: light of my life, junior
GILLIAN FLYNN GONE GIRL
Page 4 and 5: CONTENTS Cover Dedication Title Pag
Page 6 and 7: Amy Elliott Dunne: Twenty-Six Days
Page 8 and 9: PART ONE BOY LOSES GIRL
Page 10 and 11: little Missouri hometown, in her fi
Page 12 and 13: some buttons for bartering, trying
Page 14 and 15: Yes, we thought we were being cleve
Page 16 and 17: Answer: C, totally C Anyway, the pa
Page 18 and 19: the one who will end up with a pie
Page 20 and 21: Without asking, she poured me a dra
Page 22 and 23: ‘Treasure hunt,’ I said. My wif
Page 24 and 25: ‘Paper is first year,’ I said.
Page 26 and 27: ‘Don’t worry,’ I said. ‘It
Page 28 and 29: ‘Amy!’ She wasn’t on the wate
Page 30 and 31: let me grow up, unencumbered by my
Page 32 and 33: Andys? No, just kidding, don’t wr
Page 34 and 35: NICK DUNNE THE DAY OF I waited for
Page 36 and 37: I was telling Riordan about the str
Page 38 and 39: need me to translate my English, Co
Page 40 and 41: ‘What anniversary today?’ she a
Page 42 and 43: Delaware, a state of many rich iden
Page 44 and 45: NICK DUNNE THE NIGHT OF Boney and G
Page 46 and 47: was so completely true and I’d ne
Page 48 and 49: some good friends here? We’d like
Page 50 and 51: eing monitored, her photo circulate
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glasses, fussy with the table lamp.
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The police finished with their ques
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE APRIL 21, 2009 -
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of his own taxi, and he stands in t
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‘Man, my wife, she’s been hyste
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technicality he never saw himself a
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It was silly but incredibly sweet,
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longtime response, the need to remi
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crook of the V of the Robert Indian
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your money.’ ‘Not according to
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I stay where I am for a few minutes
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hit, washed away the Riverway store
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I’m an adjunct professor there. H
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the clue say?’ I let him read ove
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have, more than once.) The quizzes
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touch me again. ‘Oh, okay. Good,
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Desi left school shortly after. But
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great! c) Until a new job comes alo
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grooves beneath his eyes. My mother
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NICK DUNNE TWO DAYS GONE I woke up
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‘Oh, come on—’ ‘You’d be
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‘Hear the police are botching thi
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missing person notice for Amy, my w
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mantra of all attractive women. ‘
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four, and it’s spread to the live
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shuffling, like my bones hurt, a fe
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NICK DUNNE THREE DAYS GONE The poli
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around, as if he worried they’d o
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played Huck, we were out to dinner,
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celebrate us, not a test about whet
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hopped in the back, planted himself
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was what we had in mind. When we re
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signs that read Jewelry and Beauty
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I pulled out her photo. The Hillsam
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your housewarming? Have you thought
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Go grim-faced, her hair in barrette
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off and starts moving toward me aga
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‘No, he just said she was afraid,
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in town. There are plenty of other
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up. I entered the headquarters a fe
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‘Okay.’ She lingered, so I bega
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I should add, in Amy’s defense, t
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moment. I punished you for being a
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genuinely annoying and then swung b
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know he loves me.’ I admire Mo’
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NICK DUNNE FOUR DAYS GONE She was s
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her hair? Also: What were Amy’s f
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who left the bar early if a woman w
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sweater. Don’t be that guy, I tho
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the miserable situation, assuming t
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shoulder. ‘Maybe—’ I could fe
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE JULY 21, 2011 I a
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Instead, we wait. It takes two hour
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NICK DUNNE FIVE DAYS GONE I leaned
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‘Nick, this is a little drastic.
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I phoned Go and she said, ‘Well,
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‘You had a very intense relations
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didn’t know - you’d think they
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‘It was interesting to meet you,
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me full on the lips, and he touched
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NICK DUNNE FIVE DAYS GONE I sat in
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‘It’s kind of a woodwork situat
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‘I don’t know what you want me
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‘Not Wednesday night?’ Boney as
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south. Amy’s parents had to borro
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wife in those photos?’ They gave
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE OCTOBER 21, 2011
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from a night out drinking, and I’
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NICK DUNNE SIX DAYS GONE The first
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wasn’t sure if it was Andie or Am
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town, this town that Amy loved, tha
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We both gasped. He held his fist in
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NICK DUNNE SIX DAYS GONE Go pushed
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‘It’s a lot different. But you
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‘You walked all the way here?’
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letters, a beautiful antique wooden
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NICK DUNNE SEVEN DAYS GONE It was t
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‘She was definitely pregnant.’
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pregnant.’ ‘Is pregnant.’ Tan
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Tanner tightened his tie, twisted a
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‘We’ll prep you for the convers
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PART TWO BOY MEETS GIRL
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no blood has dripped where it shoul
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persona because they’re too lazy
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else - than I ever have been before
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a word to the woodshed. ‘Look,’
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The beginning of a wonderful new st
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Amy put in where she’s hidden som
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE THE DAY OF You kn
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I’ve always thought I could commi
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event? It was fun, mostly. I’d wa
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NICK DUNNE SEVEN DAYS GONE I had to
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near the door. ‘You are such a sp
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‘Let me go, Nick, or I swear.’
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picked up my story. She has to, I c
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fish. A couple of times now, he bri
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know that. Not for sure. For now it
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cop line, but it’s the truth.’
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flipped Amy off - she wouldn’t le
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ead it, but it’s also another pla
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE SEVEN DAYS GONE I
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machine, showing a toddler asleep o
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Needs Me’ is basically a lilting
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watch TV.’ I bring a fresh tomato
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She is looking right at me, and I w
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NICK DUNNE EIGHT DAYS GONE We searc
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‘Lets see if we can reach out to
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‘Hives. Stress.’ I turned away
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smiling. A tear dribbled on his chi
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‘Well.’ Tommy called again for
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anonymous, typed, says: Maybe next
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‘You’re up,’ Greta says to me
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nuances, the structure. Just good o
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finding the angle, exploiting the w
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fish-smuggling ring? ‘I’ am gam
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NICK DUNNE EIGHT DAYS GONE As soon
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as an idea and not really for who s
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oardwalk psychic. ‘No. I have no
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‘Because I realized I’d be stuc
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presence known, and then she was ba
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‘I’ll give it context,’ she s
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just happens to be the coolest girl
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gives me pause. My husband has fini
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goodbye.’ He steps toward me, and
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He pats me on the arm as they leave
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The doorbell rang, and I opened the
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I’m not fucking around here: This
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alternate theory. She has a good re
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She turned the camera on, sat down
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ejuvenative picture?’ Betsy asked
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NICK DUNNE TEN DAYS GONE We spent t
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TEN DAYS GONE I h
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my eyes bigger, my cheeks flushed.
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singers.’ He says the word dubiou
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house. If you feel cramped by me, i
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privacy to heal during this very pa
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make any excuses for it. I let myse
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said. ‘Not gonna bite you.’ The
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She looked startled and held up a f
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TEN DAYS GONE We
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year. ‘My goodness, Desi,’ I sa
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handwriting. ‘You know what else
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‘Is she crazy, Nick?’ Boney sai
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‘The visor hat, that’s an old i
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the bag. He doesn’t like the smel
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to be Amy’s hero, and when I lost
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NICK DUNNE FOURTEEN DAYS GONE I wok
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that—’ ‘Yeah, that would be g
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senses. Those fucking bitches. I’
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TWENTY-SIX DAYS G
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I look at Desi with outright disgus
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE FORTY DAYS GONE I
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‘Oh, darling, not silly at all. I
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NICK DUNNE FORTY DAYS GONE Out on b
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I wanted to kill her. Had we been a
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a good man. But … I guess it does
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with creases from being folded too
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B: So he stabbed you? The angle is
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like I was nosing around in somethi
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NICK DUNNE THE NIGHT OF THE RETURN
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to have Amy back? How wonderful do
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hated her. I was afraid of her. ‘
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‘Ha! Never thought I’d hear you
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I paused. ‘That was my original p
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the words she suctioned to me: aver
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possible way. You don’t really lo
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‘Shut up, Amy. I mean it.’ ‘J
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Amy was exactly right. So maybe the
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know, would love to arrest me. But
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NICK DUNNE THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE RE
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more of her lies …’ ‘We shoul
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me, like, actually sleep. It will b
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NICK DUNNE NINE WEEKS AFTER THE RET
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AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TEN WEEKS AFTER T
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I felt a giant bubble of joy - I co
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Yes, I am finally a match for Amy.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I’ve got to start
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laugh till I fall down. The guy who
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ALSO BY GILLIAN FLYNN SHARP OBJECTS
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