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Todd: Now Norman, you've lived in Japan for awhile. Have you lived in any other countries? Norman: Yes, I've lived in Germany as well. Todd: Germany! Norman: Yes, I lived for five years. I had two contracts in Germany. The first one in the seventies,

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