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Why The B Word Means Nothing

Once upon a time, my best friend's employer wrote a book. Then, one week after Christmas, her book was one of the top-selling English language books at the Tower Records shop in Shibuya, Tokyo. Since then, this woman has prefaced... ...full story at Geisha, Interrupted

from Geisha, Interrupted on Mon, Mar 17 2008

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