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You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Oakland
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Amy Ruth Tan
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