Kobe 4

I worked for a warehouse services company.  We handled things like the western Japan supply of fish foods and aquarium supplies and the Bebe line of kid’s clothing, and seasonal goods for the various Japanese holidays.

Here I am with some of my fellow workers at a company picnic on one of those holidays:

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I sometimes had a much different form of dress there in Japan:

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Here I am with my second black cat, Chance:

This was after the January 17th, 1995 quake and at this point, my cat was homeless.  I couldn’t take him with me when I moved out of my ruined apartment but I saw him every day and brought food to this area, where, out of sight, I had set up a shelter for my cat, a place for him to eat and sleep, if he wanted to.  It was right around the corner from K*’s parent’s house.

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