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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Save
Another
Life
Destroyed
Lovely

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