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Buddhas and Bikinis 2 ‛Who am I? That is always the hardest question. I love butterflies, so I have learned to live with the caterpillars. I am the girl that occupies her time in supermarket queues by studying the chocolate racks. I love the serenity of mountain tops but abhor the climb (why doesn’t Mt Everest have a chairlift?). I love timeless conversation but very ambitious about getting enough sleep. I love intelligent people, but a degree can’t buy you happiness. I love negativity, but mostly when my car needs a jump start. Love is the only answer, but who ever asks that question these days? I have found happiness in a bowl of rice, in a stranger’s generosity, in a lover's kiss and in a cat's purr, but there's more to life than chasing rainbows. There is someone for everyone but sometimes ‛anyone’ is not enough.’
My name was Aristotle Mylonas. I was a dreamer. Buddhas and Bikinis 3 Every time I closed my eyes, I was transported into my greatest fear, water. Within that mariner’s world, beneath my closed eyelids, what troubled imago lay but my greatest want and woe; she, my most treasured possession, my arch-desire, my Neptune, my water kingdom. The first time I met Hiroshi I had a black eye. I was taking a break from final-year veterinary school, spending a day down at Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland. Personally, I loathed what Surfer’s Paradise stood for; wealthy retirees, predators of time who killed hours on park benches; milestone pundits who gambled their life’s earnings to spend their few days seaside. Mixed into this flotsam, the floral-shirted Americans, drug jocks, and the six-pack surfies and D-rack girls with their velcro wallets and teflon minds. But what the hell, any change is pennies when you need a break from study. I was lucky; my first exam was more than twenty-four hours away. That’s forever in the life of a butterfly, or a uni student. Venturing out waist-deep on main beach was no small feat given my hydrophobia. I was challenging my fears by slowly stepping into the water, asking it to be gentle to me, but I may as well have been talking to myself. That’s the thing that bugs me the most about water - it’s indifference to form and content. I was pounded many times, under massive waves. I got up time and again, spitting out mouthfuls of sand, beaten like a sari on the steps of the Ganges. One wave threw me down so hard that I temporarily blacked out. In that moment, I saw my whole insignificant life flash before me. I was saved from the jaws of death only by a following wave that tossed me up onto the beach, coughing and spluttering like Jonah after his ordeal with the whale. Walking back up the beach, I noticed a petite Japanese girl lying on her left side, curved like an Abyssinian cat beneath a bright blue fedora hat and floral bikini pants. She
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To seek respect, we must first dest
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glancing at it before retreating to
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Buddhas and Bikinis 79 ‛Fuck Stee
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‛You should talk.’ ‛What’s
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He’s a Man-child, a sentimental p
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In celebration of what is more than
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Buddhas and Bikinis 129 final sip,
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lack of it.’ Buddhas and Bikinis
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I rested my menu to the table, ‛I
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Melina was wrong; I didn’t hate h
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driveway. Buddhas and Bikinis 141 A
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writer.’ Buddhas and Bikinis 147
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Buddhas and Bikinis 149 ‛Yeah,’
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across Port Phillip Bay after an ho
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stars that were spinning supernova
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‛You were in Japan.’ Buddhas an
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followed Melina inside. Buddhas and
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need to relax and maybe I can help
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akes vibrated against my ear. An an
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Cassandra and I were lying on the b
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‛Yeah.’ ‛Who was the other ma
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wind chimes you see at Sunday marke
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‛You ain’t gonna die, old man!
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As we walked along the beach toward
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‛Not all army guys are jerks, Ari
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cigar. He walked to me bullish then
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‛It’s a start,’ I said. ‛At
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A friend of mine from Uni, he knows
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