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its own nose

its own cleansing perfume

its own perfect blended

California road cocktail

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Taste Berkeley Alice Waters panisse

Taste Stockton Street Chinatown duck

Taste San Jose sushi

Taste Irish Frisco tater

Taste LA Afro-soul platter

Taste East Los burrito

Taste Truckee Donner flesh

Taste California

Taste history

Hawai‘i Delegation

Japan Air Lines --

what other?

Our 2002 delegation

four Japanese, one Brit

all wearing IDs

of Nihondaikagu

Nihon University

Japan University

Tokyo Haneda

to Honolulu International

Oahu flying time7 hours

Meets and greets

student exchange-talk

signature and hanko

time-out

Diamond Head crater

Waikiki beach sun

Aloha Tower light

with to follow

Pearl City

Four Japanese

one Brit

at Pearl Harbor

a-gaze at

the Arizona

the California

a-gaze

at December 7 1941

a-gaze

at Tora Tora flights of

Nakajima

Aichi

Mitsubishi

Flying time

less than

one hour

Exchange

signings

Exchange

flights

Exchange

times

Japan to America

Time change.

Times change

Nominating Vancouver

You’d have thought wouldn’t you