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The Running Novelist.(Haruki Murakami)
A long time has passed since I started running on an everyday basis. Specifically, it was the fall of 1982. I was thirty-three then.
Not long before that, I was the owner of a small jazz club in Tokyo, near Sendagaya Station. Soon after leaving college--I'd been so busy with side jobs that I was actually a few credits short of graduating and was still officially a student--I had opened a little club near the south entrance of Kokubunji Station. The club had stayed there for about three years; then, when the building it was in closed for renovations, I moved it to a new location, closer to the center of Tokyo. The new venue wasn't big--we had a grand piano and just ...
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- BASEBALL
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