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LAT: Mother Love and the Bento Box
As time went on, I reacquired my taste for Japanese food. I would find out what other people had brought to school for bento and report back to my mother. There was a boy in class who didn't have a mother. Every day his father would fix him a gigantic rice ball wrapped in seaweed; it looked like a shotput. The ball and three dried sardines were thrown together in a plastic bag. I would watch him eat the rice ball out of the corner of my eye. I grew to like this boy because he never seemed to mind or to envy other people's fancy bento. He just ate his rice ball and the three sardines from head to tail.
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This onset is much earlier than in previous generations: Malignancies once thought to take 20 to 30 years to become noticeable are being removed from the faces, backs and necks of what one dermatologist described as "remarkably young" patients.
I burned myself in Mexico for the first time in decades. I do remember getting a lot of sun as a kid, but I'm Asian so I think I am a bit better adapted for sunshine than the pale white actress in the news article.
