In 1969, my second brother graduated from high school and was recommended to go to a music college.

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Working in a high school I had the summers off and worked enough to pay my brother back, with interest.

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My eldest brother, for some reason, became the first trumpeter in the wind band of Rakunan Junior High School, and became known as a musical genius.

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