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This summer, 2022, will go down in my memory as “The year of the Japanese Battle.”

But to start this story, we need to go back 25 years, when One was just seven. Her curiosity for bugs was uncharacteristic for such a young girl. There wasn’t an insect she was afraid of picking up. She would get nose-to-nose to a grasshopper if it let her, and she learned at an early age to bait her own hook with a worm. Chasing bugs, hopping in the grass trying to catch a butterfly, or just lyin...