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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Home
Knew
Walls
Life
Story
Soon
Happy
Looked
House
Saws
Keep
Wall
Around
Inside
Returned
Stories
Longer
Unhappiness
Thought
Already
Ending

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