Gone-Girl-by-Gillian-Flynn

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B: So he stabbed you? The angle is— A: I’m not sure if he did it on purpose, or if I thrust myself onto the blade accidentally – I was so off balance. I remember the club falling to the floor, though, and I looked down and saw my blood from the stab wound pooling over the club. I think I passed out then. B: Where were you when you woke up? A: I woke up hog-tied in my living room. B: Did you scream, try to get the neighbors’ attention? A: Of course I screamed. I mean, did you hear me? I was beaten, stabbed, and hog-tied by a man who had been obsessed with me for decades, who once tried to kill himself in my dorm bedroom. B: Okay, okay, Amy, I’m sorry, that question was not intended in the least to sound like we are blaming you, we just need to get a full picture here so we can close the investigation and you can get on with your life. Do you want another water, or coffee or something? A: Something warm would be nice. I’m so cold. B: No problem. Can you get her a coffee? So what happened then? A: I think his original plan was to subdue me and kidnap me and let it look like a runaway-wife thing, because when I wake up, he’s just finished mopping the blood in the kitchen, and he’s straightened the table of little antique ornaments that fell over when I ran to the kitchen. He’s gotten rid of the club. But he’s running out of time, and I think what must have happened is: He sees this disheveled living room – and so he thinks, Leave it. Let it look like something bad happened here. So he throws the front door open, and then he knocks a few more things over in the living room. Overturns the ottoman. So that’s why the scene looked so weird: It was half true and half false. B: Did Desi plant incriminating items at each of the treasure hunt sites: Nick’s office, Hannibal, his dad’s house, Go’s woodshed? A: I don’t know what you mean? B: There was a pair of women’s underwear, not your size, in Nick’s office. A: I guess it must have been the girl he was … dating. B: Not hers either. A: Well, I can’t help on that one. Maybe he was seeing more than one girl.
B: Your diary was found in his father’s house. Partly burned in the furnace. A: Did you read the diary? It’s awful. I’m sure Nick did want to get rid of it – I don’t blame him, considering you guys zeroed in on him so quickly. B: I wonder why he would go to his father’s to burn it. A: You should ask him. (Pause.) Nick went there a lot, to be alone. He likes his privacy. So I’m sure it didn’t feel that odd to him. I mean he couldn’t do it at our house, because it’s a crime scene – who knows if you guys will come back, find something in the ashes. At his dad’s, he has some discretion. I thought it was a smart move, considering you guys were basically railroading him. B: The diary is very, very concerning. The diary alleges abuse and your fears that Nick didn’t want the baby, that he might want to kill you. A: I really do wish that diary had burned. (Pause.) Let me be honest: The diary includes some of Nick’s and my struggles these past few years. It doesn’t paint the greatest picture of our marriage or of Nick, but I have to admit: I never wrote in the diary unless I was super-happy, or I was really, really unhappy and wanted to vent and then … I can get a little dramatic when it’s just me stewing on things. I mean, a lot of that is the ugly truth – he did shove me once, and he didn’t want a baby, and he did have money problems. But me being afraid of him? I have to admit, it pains me to admit, but that’s my dramatic streak. I think the problem is, I’ve been stalked several times – it’s been a lifelong issue – people getting obsessed with me – and so I get a little paranoid. B: You tried to buy a gun. A: I get a lot paranoid, okay? I’m sorry. If you had my history, you’d understand. B: There’s an entry about a night of drinks when you suffered from what sounds like textbook antifreeze poisoning. A: (Long silence.) That’s bizarre. Yes, I did get ill. B: Okay, back to the treasure hunt. You did hide the Punch and Judy dolls in the woodshed? A: I did. B: A lot of our case has focused on Nick’s debt, some extensive credit-card purchases, and our discovery of all those items hidden in the woodshed. What did you think when you opened the woodshed and saw all this stuff? A: I was on Go’s property, and Go and I aren’t especially close, so mostly, I felt
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To Brett: light of my life, senior
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CONTENTS Cover Dedication Title Pag
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Amy Elliott Dunne: Twenty-Six Days
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PART ONE BOY LOSES GIRL
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little Missouri hometown, in her fi
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some buttons for bartering, trying
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Yes, we thought we were being cleve
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Answer: C, totally C Anyway, the pa
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the one who will end up with a pie
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Without asking, she poured me a dra
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‘Treasure hunt,’ I said. My wif
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‘Paper is first year,’ I said.
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‘Don’t worry,’ I said. ‘It
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‘Amy!’ She wasn’t on the wate
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let me grow up, unencumbered by my
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Andys? No, just kidding, don’t wr
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NICK DUNNE THE DAY OF I waited for
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I was telling Riordan about the str
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need me to translate my English, Co
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‘What anniversary today?’ she a
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Delaware, a state of many rich iden
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NICK DUNNE THE NIGHT OF Boney and G
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was so completely true and I’d ne
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some good friends here? We’d like
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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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Page 330 and 331: AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TEN DAYS GONE We
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Page 352 and 353: I look at Desi with outright disgus
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Page 370 and 371: NICK DUNNE THE NIGHT OF THE RETURN
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Page 378 and 379: I paused. ‘That was my original p
Page 380 and 381: the words she suctioned to me: aver
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Page 386 and 387: Amy was exactly right. So maybe the
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Page 396 and 397: NICK DUNNE NINE WEEKS AFTER THE RET
Page 398 and 399: AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE TEN WEEKS AFTER T
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Page 404 and 405: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I’ve got to start
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Page 408 and 409: ALSO BY GILLIAN FLYNN SHARP OBJECTS
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