But now that I am old, moving every year closer to...

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

Amy Tan

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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Amy Tan

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

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Amy Tan

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

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Amy Tan

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

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Amy Tan

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

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Amy Tan

But now that I am old, moving ...

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