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Kids, don't do mingers

By Michael Davies
Special to Page 2

Monday, June 17, 2002

Day 15: You're going home with the Argies June 15, between cars 2 and 3, Hikari 288 to Niigata, 4:35 p.m. I don't do mingers. That's what it says on the T-shirt of the young Japanese football fan (ubiquitous George Cross painted on both cheeks) sitting on the floor in front of me. I am sitting on the counter next to the basin in the bathroom, and all in all there must be 25 of us crammed in the space between the two cars. It's a two-hour-10-minute ride and normally my idea of hell. But ...

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