I always celebrate my birthday with a sushi dinner with one of my best friends, Russ. It’s a tradition that we have observed for over twenty years. Russ is two days and two years older than me, and the symmetry of that fact for some reason compels us to get our annual sushi binge in. In the “old days” we would go to Kikusui (now closed) and have the owner, Mrs. Takahashi and son Jimmy make us a “Birthday Special” It was always a monstrous bite with something “eeeewey”, chewy, and topped ...
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