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Louis Pastrami's avatar

I live near a reasonably pleasant enclave called West Acton, the home of the only fulltime Japanese school in London. I've taught several hundred of them English and they're delightful, intelligent, perceptive and as unlike what one has come to expect from Brits and the ubiquitous uninvited as Stilton is from fromage frais. In time no doubt they'll abandon all hope and return to Tokyo with a vast number of horrendous anecdotes to put their countrymen off the idea of even visiting let alone living here. If you can call it living....?

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Brad Goverman's avatar

A Modest Proposal indeed! Thanks for getting me to laugh after yet another horrendous news week. I couldn't agree more with P. Morse in the brilliance of your opening few lines, and loved your weaving some yiddish into the prose.

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