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for their country's 10 year anniversary. After further wandering at night, Kuno watches adults dancing at a large municiple dance hall near the city's center which is being broadcast live on TV. After the police find him and bring him to his father
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past and begin to make their own mistakes from which they can learn.” Part of the reasoning behind the new direction was the state's policy to confront the many negative social issues surrounding the
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