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    I harbored that hate for some twenty years after we buried Fish. Unlike love which grows with time, hate eats away at a person’s heart. Walking the streets of Niigata, Japan, a small city about a 90 minute flight from Far East Russia I came upon three Ruskies. They were Russian sailors on leave from their timber hauling freighter. It was obvious to us they were Russians because they always walked in threes. Later, I learned it was because one person might overpower another and try to escape. But, it was more unlikely that one could over power two. Defection was a common word in the news in those days, before the fall of the Soviet Empire. I even learned how to say it in Japanese – bomei. There were other evidences that these men I saw walking the streets of Niigata were Russian. They walked with their hands in their pockets and they NEVER entered a store. The reason was simple – they were reminding themselves they had no money.  They always stayed outside.