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... hulled rice in. Then I stuck a wooden stick into the middle and stabbed the rice repeatedly. I was basically using a makeshift mortar and pestle to hull the rice.

You ask me why I know this? I was raised in the countryside, in a small town along the coastline in a valley. While it had been a very popular port in the Edo era, time left it to settle, forgotten, in the dust. The town was suffering from depopulation as more people left for the city.

I was born in that town as the you ...

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