WHEN I was in high school I knew a girl who loved the band Japan. At the time she was the most devoted fan of the English new wave band that I had ever met. She was as crazy about their lead singer David Sylvian as I was about John Lennon, and one day she proved it by lopping off her long red hair and dyeing it blond. She plucked her eyebrows and made u…
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