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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Really
Misery
Drinking
Bird
Pond
Tears
Ponds
Another
Psychiatrist
Dream
Pour
Doe
Tells
Find
Wake

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