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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
Amy Tan
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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
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Amy Ruth Tan
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