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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Merely
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Hate
Love
Wounded

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