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Hi, nice to meet you — I'm Hana, I work at a small bookshop in Osaka. Your card just says "care coordinator", so honestly I have no picture of you yet. To start, if it isn't rude: roughly how old are you? A ballpark is fine, and please skip it if you'd rather not.

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Not rude at all — 41. I've lived in New York my whole life, just kept moving farther across the city. Coordinator basically means I'm the person who decides who goes to whose house, and when. Seven years of it now, the last two across two boroughs.

02

"The person who decides who goes to whose house and when" — that is not at all what I'd pictured. What does an ordinary weekday look like, from the moment you get up?

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