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blogging friends since I started writing this blog in February, 2011. It
has been a real pleasure and learning from oversea friends since then. Thank
you very much for your friendship and you all are really dear to me.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I am a Japanese woman who were
born between loving parents in 1955. Both of them were so deft at
doing everything and I really feel thankful for the love I had from them
and the things they taught me. I live in Yamaguchi-pref. where is the
southernmost prefecture of Honshu (main-land) in Japan. I was married to my
husband in 1977 when I was 22 years old. Our mutual acquaintance
introduced us, so ours was an old-style arranged marriage. Although we haven't
been able to blessed with a child, I feel so lucky having really happy
marriage life with warmhearted husband. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I've been teaching English at
home since I was 30 years old. I was so blessed with many wonderful
students up until today. If it weren't for them, my life wouldn't have been so
rewarding. They are the ones taught me how important to love others, not only
being loved. The other blessing I had was the experiences of trip to foreign
countries. I've been to nearly 7~8 countries. I think I will have
to write about these marvelous trips and memories in my blog.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">My husband retired from his 41
years bank clerk job in 2010. He has two hobbies now which makes me happy
that he can enjoy his retired life. One is playing saxophone; he now joined the
band group made up with senior people. The other is making soba noodle which he
started right after he retired.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after p;)</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><u>(from post of October 14, 2012)</u></span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">October 31st is our
35th Wedding Anniversary;</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I cannot believe this great
deal of time has passed!!! I always felt funny to hear the elder people
keep saying "Time Flies" when young. It sure is ironic that
it's my turn to feel it first hand, p;) Well, hubby doesn't seem to be very
happy my posting our picture (you know how Japanese men are, not only? haha,)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Coming anniversary really
makes me recall the days we had.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary"><i>t</i><i>his page</i></a>,
I learned that what is the anniversary gift for the set year. And we call the
anniversary with special way from these gifts in Japan, ours called
for example, "coral wedding (anniversary) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">珊瑚婚式</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, sangokonshiki" </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
some of you might remember, we were introduced by mutual acquaintance who
happened to live next door with my husband in 1977. Old fashioned arranged
marriage and we married only four months later. He was single living
alone at that time. After we met, he called me almost every day p;) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
I knew my hormone disorder due to little malfunction of pituitary gland, I
started infertility treatment right after we married (he knew about it in
advance). Well, it has been a bit tough several years both mentally and
financially. As for mentally, I have to add the busybodies' gossip; whew,
it sure last long and I thought later that only if the air-conditioning had
been more common at that time, I wouldn't have to hear that much. Mothers
group (about 10 years older than me) were joyfully chatting and
laughing, which were clearly heard from outside, even from inside of their
house while I was walking pass. Haha, young newlyweds suddenly became
neighbor must have been an easy target. I was reminded how the woman without
children can be seen or treated in society. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
am so grateful for my husband for his understanding; if it were not his
support, I wouldn't have been able to get through these period. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Right
after I gave up the treatment, I needed something to spend my affluent
time and boost my spirit up for both of us. Since I started learning
English by enjoying bi-lingual system, I didn't have to spend time with these
trivial matter, haha. After I passed the certain level of the
government supported proficiency test, I was lucky to be able to teach English
at home and have had many students who are all so dear to me. I must admit that
time has gone really quickly since
I started to engage in teaching when I was 30 years old. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Thank
God with hubby's patience and his bank clerk job which required long
working hours, I could continue the work of till late at night (around 21:30). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Through
good times and bad times, you have been always on my side, especially when I my
family were sick and lost them. Love you always my sweetheart</span><span style="font-family: "ms 明朝" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">♡♡♡</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
know you don't read this blog, p;)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">*Went
to see fire work*</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yesterday night (29th), we
went to see the fire works. Yes, around this of the season p;) For the
Eve of the Civic Festival, next city has the
"Congratulatory Dream Fire Works" and not
only business enterprise but also citizens can be involved by paying
some amount of money. (for many categories like birthdays, many
kinds of anniversaries and so on) The citizens paid money have
seats with tables (there were 5,000~6,000 seats) and have a really good
view(^_^)</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">彡</span><span style="font-family: "ms 明朝" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">☆</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As you can see from the date,
it was put off from Saturday to Monday due to the long waited a bit of rain.
My husband was given tickets from who had to cancel to go. I thought
how lucky and meant a lot for us <i>especially for our anniversary</i>.
I had never seen them at such close place and really enjoyed them. Haha, some
of my bad pictures down there. I have noticed that how difficult to take shots
of them.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">*Anniversary Lunch*</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today (30th), we went to have anniversary lunch. As I
wished to have a Western Meal for a change, we had steak course. So sorry for
the bad picture, I think the light disturbed the color. Chestnuts potage
soup was first experience and steak was really nice as well. For me, these
type of meals are a big treat and fancy (dainty?) </span><span style="font-family: "ms 明朝" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">♡♡♡</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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married. It was a fine day and I will never forget the eyes of my parents who
must have the mixed feeling. And my aunt's (mother's youngest sister) 2
daughters were just toddlers and running around me. One is
a wife of the owner of the Japanese restaurant and both of them a
mother of 3 children. The other day I ran into my old student and she has a 2
year boy and expecting other baby this winter. This was a delightful encounter
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