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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary we did not have any books in the house.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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