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At 84, a City’s Last Geisha Defies Time
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
"And so on March 11, as Ms. Ito was getting ready to perform, the biggest tsunami of her life assailed Kamaishi, tearing apart the breakwater and eventually reaching inland all the way to the house where she and her nephew lived.
As it turned out, after a wall in her house collapsed and she slowly moved to flee, Hiroyuki Maruki, 59, a sake store owner and the president of a group dedicated to preserving an old melody called 'Kamaishi Seashore Song,' came by looking for her. 'She is the only one who knows how to sing that song,' Mr. Maruki said."
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For Everything There Is a Season, Even Mangoes
BY MELISSA CLARK
"Happily, the season of the sublime is nigh. The Indian Alphonso, banned from being imported until five years ago, when low-level irradiation was approved to kill an insect it harbored, is considered the finest variety by mango connoisseurs. With smooth, deep yellow flesh as juicy as an orange but much, much sweeter, they are absolutely worth the trek to Queens (or wherever your nearest Indian market is). Patel Brothers in Jackson Heights, 37-27 74th Street , (718) 898-3445, expects to have them for about six weeks beginning April 10."
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