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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Spirit
Tigers
Unseen
Trees
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Tree
Pounced
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Tiger

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