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Music the edge of what we think we know. Wherever you get your podcast. I am the older brother.

There's older kids everywhere like to say I was the boss.

So when I decided I had to leave the wacky religious cult we were raised in in my late teens.

After the smoke cleared, my brother abandoned the cult as well.

Later, I started school at Grand Valley State University.

My brother immediately enrolled at Grand Valley State University. There I stumbled

across an incredible program that sent me to rule Japan for a year. All expenses paid.

While later, my brother attended the same program right after I did. Later, I decided I want to live and work in Asia for a few years.

My brother reached the exact same conclusion for himself.

And after a while, I plan to return back to the States.

But this time, my brother decided no.

No, instead, he was going to move from rural Japan to big city, Tokyo.

Mion lights, fancy people, nightlife.

I hugged him.

Wished him good luck before flying back alone on the jet plane.

This is why I wasn't there when he had a mental breakdown.

On the streets of a foreign city, a city he didn't know that didn't know him.

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