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Culture Day is November 3 (Japan), so get out there, and celebrate some culture! What is culture you ask? Culture is when you make something. So take the woods. There's many sticks in the woods, and those are meaningless, but when you take a stick, and make something out of it, now it has meaning. That's culture. Including food.

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