Trip To Japan I Caught Her Looking Essay

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¶ … Trip to Japan I caught her looking at me the way a child stares at a dead animal, all scared and bashful -- but somehow magnetized by the image, unable to look away from the carnage. I couldn't blame her for eyeing me up that way. At the time, I was unsightly. A mess, really. I was dressing like a rock star on a budget -- black Wranglers, black T, white gold chain (that certainly wasn't gold) and a black pleather jacket replete with fur aviator collar. I looked, by all accounts, stupid. But I had one thing going for me; I was an American in Japan. And I wasn't going to be denied.

The exact setting or place we met at is inconsequential as is the total amount of time we spent, as they say in poorly written adult novels, "exchanging furtive glances." All I will tell you is that she eventually came up to me with her Dora-the-Explorer haircut (board-straight bangs...

...

A light, non-threatening, tap-tap.
"Hey, there," I said.

"Hi," she said.

"Hi," I said.

"Hi," she said.

"My name is Lo-la," she said. "I from Tokyo."

"Great," I said.

"You from American?"

"Yes, ma'am, I am" I said, trying to sound cool.

"Hi," she said.

"Hi?" I said.

I won't bore you with the details of our first 30 minutes (or so) of conversation. But I will tell you that despite her English being as broken as a back-country road and my Japanese being almost completely non-existent, we managed to learn enough about each other to want to know more about one another. So we went for an extended walk. And during that walk we did learn…

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