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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Discovered
Somehow
Illusion
Fate
Along
Control
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Faith

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