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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

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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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Inverse
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