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"description": "On wrapping up another training arc, focusing on Japanese study, and how it's influencing my fiction writing.",
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"textContent": "Lately, I’ve been full-bore studying Japanese for the upcoming JLPT, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the start of July (Almost there! Oh no, it’s almost here...) I went through a similar sort of thing the first time I got into weight training; a focused training arc before a goal.\n\nThis is __Refrakt__ , a bi-weekly newsletter from Ian J. Battaglia on curiosity, creativity, and (hopefully!) insight, through the lens of photography, writing, study, art and beauty, and my life.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
"title": "✦ Refrakt: 48 — Pattern-Matching",
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