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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Seems
Many
Good
Things
Seem

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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength...strongest wind cannot be seen.
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I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
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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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