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Old 07-18-2011, 05:54 AM   #2855
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By the way, Saya, I'm with you on this ...


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Originally Posted by Saya View Post
Japan won the World Cup!
... in that, even though I was a little heart-broken by the U.S. women's loss, it has got to be a great inspiration and perhaps even a bit of a balm to the people of Japan while they are engaged in recovering from the quake, tsunami and Fukishima Nuclear plant disaster. It's a lot like when the New Orleans Saints won the American football championship after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina ... that moment gave a lot of people in tragic, desperate straits some hope and a moment of joy.

So I'm not hatin'. The women from Japan deserved to win. More importantly, I think their country needed it.
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