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I have always known a thing before it happens.

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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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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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