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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Miseries
Unbearable
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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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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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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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