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Barn Burning, by Haruki Murakami

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Barn Burning, by Haruki Murakami I met her three years ago at a friend's wedding reception, here in Tokyo, and we got to know each other. There was nearly a dozen years' age difference between us, she being twenty and I thirty­one. Not that it mattered much. I had a lot else on my mind then, and didn't have time to worry about things like age. Plus, I was married, but that didn’t seem to bother her either. She was studying with a famous mime, and working as an advertising model to make ends meet. But she usually found it too much trouble to go out on the modeling…

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