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I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.