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“I loved playing with building blocks, oftentimes all on my own. I didn’t really have a lot of blocks however and so I would often destroy what I had previously erected, beginning with the building process from anew. I would do this over and over again. Around my neighborhood, there was this toy store and its window front had been decorated with a giant block-built house, a sight I visited rather frequently. No matter how much I tried to build after that block house with my own blocks, I would only be able to rebuild the front of the house, with the interior entirely missing so my house was little more than a flat surface.

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Even now, I think I am still holding that piece in my left hand… and that sure has given me reason to think.”

                                             — Kazuki Takahashi, 1961 - 2022