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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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