worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.0306171345.5886a000@posting.google.com>...
> From the NY Times:
> 
> "As adults, they come by the thousands every year, a few with their
> hair dyed red and tied in pigtails just like Anne Shirley, the heroine
> of "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel about the
> irrepressible orphan from the fictional town of Avonlea."

Except for the pigtails part, I'm in touch with that.

My seriously lame Japanese reader in college had a story on Tokei-ji in Kamakura.

So of course on the way to Enoshima I just /had/ to see that stupid temple.

Not exactly a waste of time, but still...

=Heywood=