Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.
J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965
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