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When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: December 27
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