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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

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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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Society
Living
Rotten
Everything
Applied
Like
Wood
World
Bright
Woods
False

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