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ALSO BY GILLIAN FLYNN
Gone Girl
Dark Places
Sharp Objects
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Gillian Flynn
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
CROWN is a registered trademark and the Crown colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
This title was originally published in the anthology Rogues
, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2014.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available upon request.
Hardcover ISBN 9780804188975
eBook ISBN 9780804188982
International Edition ISBN 9781101907320
Cover design by Christopher Brand and Curtis Jinkins
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Contents
Cover
Also by Gillian Flynn
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
The Grownup
Acknowledgments
About the Author
To David and Ceán, you sick, sick people.
I DIDN’T STOP
giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it.
For three years, I gave the best hand job in the tristate area. The key is to not overthink it. If you start worrying about technique, if you begin analyzing rhythm and pressure, you lose the essential nature of the act. You have to mentally prepare beforehand, and then you have to stop thinking and trust your body to take over.
Basically, it’s like a golf swing.
I jacked men off six days a week, eight hours a day, with a break for lunch, and I was always fully booked. I took two weeks of vacation every year, and I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone. So over three years, I’m estimating that comes to about 23,546 hand jobs. So don’t listen to that bitch Shardelle when she says I quit because I didn’t have the talent.
I quit because when you give 23,546 hand jobs over a three-year period, carpal tunnel syndrome is a very real thing.
I came to my occupation honestly. Maybe “naturally” is the better word. I’ve never done much honestly in my life. I was raised in the city by a one-eyed mother (the opening line of my memoir), and she was not a nice lady. She didn’t have a drug problem or a drinking problem, but s ............

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