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All decent parents want to do whats best for their children. You are a bengal tiger cub, one of three dacca, rajpur, raniganj abandoned by your mother. Amy chua, the selfproclaimed tiger mom who, in 2011, published a book arguing that chinese women are superior mothers thus their offspring superior children has even more to say. A new book called simply tiger, penned by people magazine reporter steve helling, details tiger woods affairs and shady management in exhaustive detail.
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