<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sorry we missed you that night.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Katrina<div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 13 Apr 2024, at 7:28 AM, Jeffrey Anderson <jpaitv@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">My wife, two kids, and I were supposed to be at that chanko night at Kirishima's Chanko in May 2001, but a looooong-time friend in Tokyo told us after we had committed to the dinner that she had put together a party of many of our old friends. Well, there was no way that I could tell her no - (would she ever lose face!) so unfortunately we had to pull out of the dinner. It was on a Saturday night right after that day's bouts ended. I waited for a few minutes by the restaurant entrance to see who I could meet and got the pleasure of meeting my online friend Barbara Ann Klein (Babanoshuzan at the time). <div><br></div><div>Anyway, 23 years later, my wife, kids, and I still regret not being rude to our close friend and telling her thanks, but no thanks, when she had already planned everything. And 23 years later, Barbara Ann and I are still friends.</div><div><br></div><div>Gaijingai</div><div>Jeffrey Anderson</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 3:13 AM Dale Carlson <<a href="mailto:drc@oz.net">drc@oz.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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At 08:54 PM 4/11/2024, Barbara Ann Klein wrote:<br><br>
Thank you so much, Barbara, for posting this. And thank you, Katrina for
your memories of Akebono. I was just <br>
a fan. You were his friend. My deepest condolences to you, and to his
family.<br><br>
One of the high points of my life was a dinner at Kirishima's chanko
restaurant with both of you, Doreen Simmons,<br>
and a group of Swedish sumo fans. I sat across from Doreen. By the end of
the evening, she was a bit tipsy, <br>
and sang (sort of under her breath) "Have You Never Been
Mellow", the old Olivia Newton John song. She still<br>
had her lovely chorister's voice. She got to the bottom of the stairs
after leaving and realized she'd forgotten her <br>
shoes. Slightly less tipsy, I'd noticed that, carried them down with me,
and handed them to her :) Seems so long <br>
ago. I miss her. Both of you as well. I hope you're doing well.<br><br>
OK, I'll stop babbling now. This has been like a most welcome visit to
the "old" sumo mailing list. <br><br>
Dale<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">A fine retrospective on Akebono
In Australia TV’s interview with Katrina<br><br>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/wYbOsKLBPlc?si=5woUDLDJ5UmWr9Iv" target="_blank">
https://youtu.be/wYbOsKLBPlc?si=5woUDLDJ5UmWr9Iv</a><br>
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