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I fondly recall my friend, Hasegawa.

He was an instructor of Japanese culture and language at the university I attended-prepping the “preppies” for semesters abroad at the satellite campus in Tokyo.

He fed me my first ever taste of squid, and taught me, Ohayo gozaimasu genki desu ka.

Those were better, days.

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Mine came from studies at UH.

This main land girl learned the meaning of Ohana earlier than that.

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