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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Children
Scared
Saws
Child
Fighting

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