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“Whenever you see someone reading a Japanese newspaper. You just see some lady just reading a Japanese newspaper. You need to put a crown on her head, you need to... to lick her feet, you need to make her some soup. She is doing something that is a human miracle.”

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Book:Language Families of the World
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