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We stumble upon Butch, possibly the last remaining iPhone liner-upper in the wild, and see what makes him tick.
We aren’t sure what we were expecting when he told the Shogun “do whatever you think is best,” but we weren’t expecting this.
A tiny part of a kanji is all that separates these place names in written form, but there’s a much bigger difference in their respective atmospheres.
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