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Matt Ketchum in front of cherry blossoms and the Chitose River in Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan.
Cherry blossoms down in Yugawara

Did you ever read that book, The Giver? Fuckin’ excellent book. Totally mis-aged, though. I think I read it first in something like 4th grade or something. I’m sure I didn’t fully get it, like, at all, at the time, but, you know, I think kind of highly of myself so I bet I kinda got it ok.

But it left a mark on me, so muc…

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