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"Tokyo is now open. We repeat. Tokyo is now open."

She shifted a bit on the Eames airport seat. The aluminum, cold on her hand, the voice and its announcement awakened her.

She was going to Tokyo. She had watched the others board, from her seat. Someone sat down by her before but they were gone now. They were on the plane. They knew it was open and they were ready to go there.

Two days now, after the last chemotherapy, she still had these moments of fatigue so deep and so emotional that she felt as if maybe death was trying to pull at her; like this was more than sleep that was coming.

But it was time to go home now. To Tokyo, and then the train to Musashi-Sakai where her cat-rescuing mother and -- as always -- the crushing presence of her dead father would welcome her.

The F6 gate was open, and she gathered her things to go through it.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | March 15, 2008 12:34 PM
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I'll buy that for a dollar!

Posted by NapoleonXIV | March 15, 2008 2:27 PM
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An excerpt from a piece in today's NY Times by John Burns a war correspondent in Iraq for five years -unlike Savage who wrote a flippant pro-war piece and then went back to his life of brave Republican warrior.

"They are scenes that do not fade: Watching American soldiers being slipped into body bags for the journey home, and knowing, at that instant, that the lives of unknowing families thousands of miles away have been shattered; surveying the aftermath of suicide bombings, with severed limbs in the street, and hearing the wailing of the Iraqi bereaved. Or, an experience we endured twice at The New York Times, having a young Iraqi man working on our news staff gunned down by militiamen and insurgents, leaving children, some barely old enough to be in school, to cope with life without a beloved father and a brother, and to have no sense of why."

Posted by DW | March 15, 2008 9:01 PM
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Also, the proceeds from Walter's work at McLeod goes to Community for Youth.

Posted by Kim | March 15, 2008 11:27 PM
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That is the new Bangkok airport. I sat in that very seat on February 1st. The airport is very well designed and the lofty cylindrical spaces are an excellent antidote to the cramped cylindrical interiors of airplanes.

Posted by inkweary | March 17, 2008 12:00 PM
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Yes, that is the Bangkok Airport! Definitely interesting airport and makes it better knowing that you're about to get on a 20 hour flight back to the states. =)

I highly encourage you to visit McLeod Residence as all the money from the sale of Shoot for Change prints go to Community for Youth until March 29th.

Best,
Walter
shootforchange.com

Posted by Walter Grio | March 17, 2008 2:37 PM

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