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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Joy
Came
Hate
Much

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