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Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Maxine Hong Kingston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 27
Author
Novelist
Professor
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Maxine Ting Ting Hong
Weighing
Merchants
Scales
Honest
Must
Thinking
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Merchant

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