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junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school

2

on good terms (with); on friendly terms (with); (getting along) well; in harmony; happily; peacefully

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to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed

3

to grow older (than expected); to advance in age

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association; socializing; socialising; fellowship

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rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown

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adult man

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Tokyo

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private university

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faculty of letters; college of letters; school of humanities

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dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk

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treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like

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serious; earnest; sober; honest; sincere

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preparatory school (for entrance examinations); cram school; cramming school

1

speaker; lecturer; lecturer (at a university or college); instructor; part-time teacher; tutor (at a cram school)

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to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

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department of Japanese literature

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male student

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as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

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senior high school; high school

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boys' school

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school entrance ceremony

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new student; freshman; first-year student

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female student

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(a) little; somewhat; somehow

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to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind

2

until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far

5

next-door neighbors; (living, sitting) next to each other

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good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)

1

eccentric; crank; weirdo; oddball

1

already completely (did, happened, etc.); already entirely

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eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo

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isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on

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graduate school

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in a sense; in some way; to an extent

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laboratory; seminar room; professor's office

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office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman

1

animation; animated film; animated cartoon; anime

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who; what kind of person

2

primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive

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(idle) curiosity; fancifulness; eccentricity; person with unusual tastes; eccentric; oddball

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parent-teacher association; PTA

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comparatively; relatively; fairly; rather; pretty; unexpectedly

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Stephen King

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childhood

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real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope

1

other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for

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to begin to walk; to set out

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to get to know each other; to make acquaintance

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to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say everything; to tell all

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