A spoonful of the past

He had received the most lavish praises, and he had harvested the nastiest curses.
He was a guy whose every vein pulsed with defiance.
He was a white boy who could never become a celebrity.
He was a youth from the countryside in the eyes of the masses.
He was Tommy Hawk.
He had been reborn.
Welcome to the story that tells of the American Dream in the first half and the American nightmare in the second.
Let's invite Tommy Hawk to take the stage, in the winter of 2022.

America 1982

However, both The Washington Post and Vox TV network replaced the term with "breakup fee," deliberately creating an illusion for the viewers and readers that Uno Sosuke, this man, had his way with a national treasure-level Japanese geisha for several months and then left without giving her a dime.


To the Western public, this was utterly inconceivable behavior. American people generally weren't opposed to politicians having affairs with women—from Roosevelt and Eisenhower to Kennedy, what President didn't have some scandalous news? But no matter how scandalous the news, there had never been a scenario where a man used a woman and then left her with nothing. Thus, Uno Sosuke's despicable behavior shocked many in the Western countries, with people thinking how could a head of state be so shameless, and how could the Japanese elect such a shameless bastard to represent their national image?


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