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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
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Amy Ruth Tan
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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