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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
Amy Tan
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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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