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I Am The Best

” this is my home “

“Remember, Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans. And we are not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word ‘geisha’ means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.”

“You blew up the food?” she whispers.
“Every last bit,” I say.