http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/06/25/yellow-raincoat-%e9%ac%b1%e9%87%91%e8%89%b2%e9%9b%a8%e7%9d%80/ A New England Expat in Japan. Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thisjapaneselife.org/2010/06/25/yellow-raincoat-%e9%ac%b1%e9%87%91%e8%89%b2%e9%9b%a8%e7%9d%80/#comment-52 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:23:56 +0000 http://owwls.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-52 [...] You don’t notice how exhausting speech is until you leave it behind. Sure, you can order food in a restaurant. But you’re also filtering hours of background noise. You endure the psychic bombardment of cell phone conversations, aggressive customers, guys screaming from cars about how gay you look. [...]

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