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Dialectical Journal Entries—The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan Passage: “Years before, she had dreamed of writing stories as a way to escape. She could revise her life and become someone else. She could be somewhere else. In her imagination she could change everything, herself, her mother, her past. But the idea of revising her life also frightened her, as if by imagination alone she were condemning what did not like about herself or others. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous…