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This is our second story for the month of June.

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Our second story is titled How Long the Shadow's

cast. It's by Ken Chy Yanaagawa. Ken Chy Yanaagawa is an organizational

scholar who teaches and writes about business and social change.

He has lived in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Honolulu.

He currently makes his home in Southern California. This is his first published story.

So my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

I found her asleep on my doorstep on a wet night in Tokyo in the drizzle of Siegel of Siegel, the season of plumb rains. It was 2.30 in the morning and I was on my

way out for a drink to help with the insomnia I'd had since returning to Earth five days

earlier. I almost stepped on her,

puddled as she was near the front door of the cramped porch. The doorstep was

dark, but the lamps of neighboring buildings shed enough light to reveal a shadowy figure. The had left a package on the porch. The flat belonged to a research project on loan to me for

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