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Mental Illness In Amy Tan's Life
In life when people have treated us wrongly in any circumstance, it’s very hard to forgive them, because you have a hard time letting go.

Amy Tan did with her mother, after saying “I hate you I wish I were dead”. Which lead her mom to almost committing suicide, and treating Amy like she wasn’t her child. I remember being treated by someone I and my mother use to live with for nearly a year, he was a drunk and got on my nerves and every one who lived in or visited the house. And the one we were living with was my mom’s friend who own the house, and the alcoholic was her son who was terrorized everyone.

He would come into rooms drunk and interrupt conversations either talking about him self or what he plans to do, threating people saying he was going to kill them, which proved many people who were there including me. Just as Amy’s mother tormented her, criticized her in front of people. That lead Amy
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Amy let the bitterness of her mother go when she was losing her memory, and she was relieved of all that bagged she carried with her through the year which shaped her, just as it can shape us if we let it. That why I think forgiveness is very important, because it’s not really for the person who was unjust, but for you so you can have

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