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Caption: Coming home, there's really nothing quite like it, the awkwardness of fitting into a role you left behind, the warmth of a place that will always welcom you, ...
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Caption: ...the site of your most cherished childhood safety net torn down...
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Caption: ...and replaced with...
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Sign: LIVE ALL NUDE DANCERS
Gary: Yippie!
Sad goodbyes Gary
So, my dojo is moving. It's really somewhat depressing. I didn't think it would be. I mean... it's not closing, just moving, but I've been there for so long, trained there so much, grown so much while I was there... It's just a hard thing to see. It was actually a really beautiful layout. Everyone who stepped foot in the place agreed it wasn't just a normal dojo or dojo layout. At the end of the month, the dojo will no longer be where it's been for years.
When I started there I was an angry little depressed man. It's helped me become a much better person. Me teacher has helped me become much more than I was before. There are few people in the world that I owe more than I could ever repay. He is one of them, and the dojo was, for lack of a better explanation, my home away from home. It was a place I could go to get past the burden of the day. A place I could go to learn and hangout with friends. Now it will move, and hopefully become the same thing again. Ok, I'm going to stop reminiscing for a while now. Maybe I'll talk more about it as the time of the move gets closer.