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Stephen is three years younger than you. Though you are now quite close, throughout your childhood you two fought in a very conventional big brother-little brother way. Starting in middle school he became rather angry and rather strong, (Dad always told you he would be bigger and stronger than you one day.) He punched a hole in the wall, yelled at his computer for crashing, and was generally very difficult to relate to. In the last three years since he has left home and gone to college (at Carleton College in Minnesota) he has found a certain peace, and your relationship with him has become much closer. In addition he has found a passion for Japanese language and culture, which has partially replaced his passion for computer games, though at times they blur. He is particularly interested in art history, film, Japanese animation and comic books called anime and manga. He is really bright and has become quite ambitious. He wants to write his thesis next year on gender roles in contemporary anime (both the mainstream and explicitly pornographic variants) in which it is often impossible to distinguish boys from girls and men from women. He wants to trace depictions of gender back through the history of Japanese wood block prints, which are also often pornographic, and have a very similar representations of men and women. He is currently in Japan studying at Waseda University. You visited him over your Christmas break for 10 days and met many of his friends. Your primary contact with him is by e-mail to his cell phone. You email him roughly once or twice a week. He likes to send you little pictures his phone takes. His e-mail is 09064848237@jp-t.ne.jpr next page>> |
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