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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Imagine
Nowhere
Disappear
Neither
Outside
Inside

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