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rocket slide at a park in Fussa

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Kawasaki, 2020.05.02

I went for a fair bike ride on a friend's son's ride one fine day in May. It was a 65km round trip to Fussa and back. And though I didn't know it, this would not be the last I'd see of this cute rocket-shaped set of monkey bars. Three years later, I would arrive at the same place from my home in Kokubunji!

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On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong