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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

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Maxine Hong Kingston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 27
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Novelist
Professor
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Maxine Ting Ting Hong
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Thing
Retarded
Clumsy
Ugly

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