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❤️❤️MANTRA OF LAUGHING LITERACY OF LUMINOSITY ❤️ ❤️

Valuable Treasures of Luck, Engagement, Honor, and Respect

By SAMURAI SAM AND WILD DRAGONSPublished about 9 hours ago Updated about 9 hours ago 2 min read

❤️ Positivity Book Club: What do you value the most? ❤️ ❤️ Never Give Up ❤️ Never Give Up ❤️ ❤️

It starts with love. . .

💙💗💗 .💗💗.💗💗 💗

💙💗 🌹 NEVER 💛💗

💙❤ 🌹 GIVE 🌹💛💗

💙. 💗🌹 UP 🌹 💛 💗

💚💚💚 .💗💚 💚 💚 💛

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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❤️ ❤️Mantra of Liberation of Literacy: Escaping the Lunacy of the City of Lost Angels ❤️ ❤️

flying. . . .

fighting and fighting,

running, re-ran away, repeating. . .

struggling in the chaos of poverty,

disliking school, and thinking sad thoughts.

eaching myself about history,

living in the UCLA holy library of gnosis

reading and readin and re-reading

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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flying . . .

fighting and fighting. . .

failing, fearlessly, my 11th grade as

desiring to join some macho gangs

trying to recruit me, however, my uncle

hugging me, laughing, and protecting. . .

soul to soul, Asians with Asians. . .

surviving the concentration prisons. . .

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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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flying . . .

fighting and fighting. . .

experiencing the world at war, my uncle . .

looking into my eyes of tears, heart bleeding. . .

telling me in a loving voice to finish my education. .

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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flying . . .

fighting and fighting. . .

showing me to read more to be more. . .

having grown up in Japan, myself . . .

buying me Japanese classical authors . . .

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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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Yukio Mishima’s “Decay of the Angel” . . . . .

. . . . Kenzaburō Ōe’s “A Personal Matter”. . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . Natsume Sōseki’s “I Am a Cat” . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . Yasunari Kawabata’s “Sound of the Mountain” . . . .

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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redoing many of my classes as a senior,

. . . . . graduating, arigato, Saint Uncle. . . .

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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❤️Thank you for reading . . . Arigato, Uncle for your compassion, mindfulness, and love. . . I owe you my life. . . .

. . I am you and you are me. . . we are love . . I love you all. . .

. . . write at least 300 comments, smile for 450 seconds, reread about 500 times everything, comment 700 times more. . . .

❤️Flying . . . . . . Love you and Thank you! . .

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

My Japanese uncle told me that his family was sent to concentration camps, for that is what the US government called them at the time. Later they used "Internment Camp" as the term.

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We are taught lies in our history classes. Google it.

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. .Rest in peace . .

. . . . . . Rest in peace . . .

. . . . . . . . . . Rest in peace . . .

. . . Uncle, I miss you. . . .

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

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By Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra on Unsplash

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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

🌹🌹🌹🌹

❤️When is the pizza coming? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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About the Creator

SAMURAI SAM AND WILD DRAGONS

DR. WAYNE STEIN Ted Talk Speaker, Amazon Author, Asian Gothic Scholar; Yoga Certified, Black Belts. Writer Program Admin, Writing Center Director, Cancer Survivor, Korean Born , Raised in Japan and Italy, grew up In Los Angeles.

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  • Julie Lacksonen2 minutes ago

    Yes, giving up is giving in. It's great that you focus on love and all things positive! Keep them coming. I'm hoping to write some this weekend.

  • Sandy Gillman12 minutes ago

    Love the positivity!

  • Latisha Jeanabout 5 hours ago

    Beautiful Sam 🥹❤️

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