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[Nayoko-Kihara]

It's particularly hard for me to imagine Riai running a flower shop.

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Question: Please tell us about an impactful early childhood memory.

Juice=Juice

Kanazawa Tomoko
I loved making mudballs, so remember always making them.
Since I'd cry when they fell apart too, mom warned me not to bring them home anymore.
I don't even understand myself why I worked so hard on them. lol

Uemura Akari
Though I don't remember memories from my early childhood, I recently heard that I got something as a present I didn't ask for, and since I didn't like it immediately tossed it in the trash can.

Inaba Manaka
I worked hard to see how pretty I could make a mudball.
I hid it at the edge of the sandbox at the park, and day after day I'd keep adding sand to it to make it smooth! lol

Inoue Rei
I would fool around every time someone took my picture.

Dambara Ruru
Eating Anpanman cake my mother made for my birthday!

Kudo Yume
So I would fall down every day when I was in kindergarten, and well, since you couldn't ride the kindergarten's swing much since it was very popular,
when the swing was free I ran toward it to try and play with it but ended up falling on my face so couldn't ride it.

(t/n: You'd think she didn't manage to fit tako into this story, but you'd be wrong ブランコに乗れなかっタコとです。)

Matsunaga Riai
When my mom and dad went out, I wanted to go with them so badly that I broke the window to escape the house.
The neighbors all helped search for me.

Arisawa Ichika
I hear I had a memory from when before I was born.
When I was 1 and a half I apparently said "Splashing in the middle of the red".
I don't remember it at all now lol lol

Irie Risa
Becoming able to ride a bicycle without training wheels for the day when I was around 3~4! lol
Ignoring all adults I wasn't used to, even if they talked to me, since I was too shy ( -_-; )

Ebata Kisaki
Taking a 3-month trip to New Zealand with mama and my big sister.

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Uemura Akari
I got something as a present I didn't ask for, and since I didn't like it immediately tossed it in the trash can.

I would've gotten such a talking to/refresher on manners if I did this as a kid.

Matsunaga Riai
When my mom and dad went out, I wanted to go with them so badly that I broke the window to escape the house.
The neighbors all helped search for me.

I'm sorry, you did what.

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Ebata Kisaki
Taking a 3-month trip to New Zealand with mama and my big sister.

Knowing me Being born and raised in Aotearoa I would’ve asked a follow up question, which island, North or south? The majority say they visit the south or they never visited the North, and I’m from the North

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Question: Please tell us about an impactful early childhood memory.

Morning Musume '21

Fukumura Mizuki
I overdid it playing games like tag and hide and seek too much, and I'd always bump something and make a bruise.
But I was embarrassed that I hurt myself, and so acted like nothing happened without telling my parents.

Ikuta Erina
Falling from my bike.

Ishida Ayumi
I went out to gather edible wild plants at the mountains near my grandpa's home, and when I got so excited thinking "I got so much! So much!" they were all things you can't eat.

Sato Masaki
Breaking a bone in my little sister's hand!

Oda Sakura
When I was by myself in the living room I was scared by some thunder, and I ran crying in a rage over why they left me alone into the kitchen where everyone was.

Nonaka Miki
Trying my hardest to talk to people I didn't know and introduce myself.

Makino Maria
How nice SHINJO smelled

Haga Akane
When I went for a BBQ with my family, I got a bunch of sand in my ears (lol)

Kaga Kaede
Thinking it was tea I drank some cola, and I spit it out just like they do in a manga. Maybe because of that trauma I still can't drink anything carbonated!

Yokoyama Reina
I'd mistake "I'll speak honestly (shoujiki)" for "I'll speak to a vacuum cleaner (soujiki)", so I hear that when someone got angry with me I'd talk to the vacuum cleaner.

Morito Chisaki
I thought there was a type of pig (buta) called "kasabuta" (word for scab).

Kitagawa Rio
I'd often fight with my childhood friend, so when the two of us went to play in a neighborhood park, we got into a fight there, and I went home by myself.
Though I didn't think anything of it then, when I think about it now, I bet the mother of that friend felt so panicked she could have frozen...
I'm sorry about that time!!!!!!!
We're close now!!!

Okamura Homare
I overslept in the morning and was so frantic getting ready that I forgot my school backpack at home.

Yamazaki Mei
There was a haunted house at an overnight kindergarten trip we did which was so scary that since then I've totally avoided haunted houses.

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Question: Please tell us about an impactful early childhood memory.

Angerme

Takeuchi Akari
I'd often run away from the kindergarten room.

Kawamura Ayano
Picking plums from our kindergarten's forest and making plum syrup!
Stabbing the plums with a fork and making it with everyone left a big impression on me.

Sasaki Rikako
Transferring schools!

Kamikokuryou Moe
At night, when coming back from a neighborhood restaurant with my family, I saw one woman's shoe in front of the house and became totally traumatized thinking that someone had been kidnapped.

Kasahara Momona
When helping my little sister who had started drowning under the water, I got stuck under water myself, and when I was about to be sucked into a tetrapod, I was saved by suddenly remembering to relax my tension to float like I'd seen on TV. Since that incident, floating in water has become one of my best skills.

Ise Layla
There was a time when I admired "Noguchi-san" from Chibi Maruko-chan, and I would constantly imitate the way he laughs lol

Hashisako Rin
When I rode a bike without training wheels for the first time, one of the pedals bumped into the car daddy was washing and dented it.

Kawana Rin
When I was about 2 or 3, I threw a towel in front of me as I was running and then slipped on the towel and fell. It was funny lol

Tamenaga Shion
When I'd just entered elementary school, since in a letter exchange my friend asked me "What color do you like?", when I wrote "Gold" (きんいろ), the next day that friend told me "You like yellow (きいろ) too! That's the same as me!", I noticed that I'd written it wrong as "きいろ" instead, and since then my favorite color has been "yellow"! lol
And "yellow" is now a color I really like!!

Matsumoto Wakana
My big sister was looking for her watch, but since I was fighting with her at the time, I told her that she should take an alarm clock with her lol lol

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Sato Masaki
Breaking a bone in my little sister's hand!

This brought back memories, my little sister accidentally sliced open & hairline fractured my pinky finger via sliding shower door.

Kamikokuryou Moe
At night, when coming back from a neighborhood restaurant with my family, I saw one woman's shoe in front of the house and became totally traumatized thinking that someone had been kidnapped.

Why was this the first place her head went.

[Tobo_Junny135]

Matsumoto Wakana
My big sister was looking for her watch, but since I was fighting with her at the time, I told her that she should take an alarm clock with her lol lol

Waa-chan’s sass continues and knows no bounds even her Big sister gets caught

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Question: Please tell us about an impactful early childhood memory.

BEYOOOOONDS

Ichioka Reina
Seeing something supernatural!

Shimakura Rika
Hearing rumors that human movement appears in slow-motion to flies gave me a goal of trying to catch a fly.
One day, I succeeded in catching a fly with my bare hands.
In the hallway of the apartment building, I called out to my mom in a loud voice, and let it go after showing it to her.
I won't forget what happened then.

Nishida Shiori
I would often do impressions of Nishioka Sumiko-san!

Eguchi Saya
My head was so heavy I would fall over all the time.
At athletic festivals too I'd often fall, and crying about it left an impression on me.

Takase Kurumi
I guess it could be called having an imaginary friend?
I had a friend that only I could see.

Maeda Kokoro
I always got passionate when there was something I was looking forward to...

Yamazaki Yuhane
How there was never a time I wasn't crying.

Okamura Minami
Grabbing a cactus in Italy...!!!
The cactus looked like it had fluffy needles, so although at first it didn't hurt at all, it gradually started to hurt and my hand began to swell...
Thanks to that, the only thing I remember from Italy is the cactus、、、lol

Kiyono Momohime
The first time I talked in my sleep.
When I was about 3 years old, in a dream I was talking to a big cactus,
and I said out loud "H, h, hello!" lol
It's a memory which left a big impression on me.

Hirai Miyo
When it was my hobby to try and spin a hula hoop "super" fast,
I ended up bruising my stomach.

Kobayashi Honoka
I'll always remember how in the yard of my kindergarten, I was trying to walk through the playground equipment, but began to stagger and ended up smacking my face on the horizontal bar.

Satoyoshi Utano
When I was in about 3rd grade I woke up by myself on a Sunday,
and while trying to memorize the ending dance to Pretty Cure,
I saw my mother come down from the second floor without a sound!
I remember I was so embarrassed that I asked her over and over,
"Don't tell anyone about this okay!!!!!"

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Question: Please tell us about an impactful early childhood memory.

Okamura Minami
Grabbing a cactus in Italy...!!!
The cactus looked like it had fluffy needles, so although at first it didn't hurt at all, it gradually started to hurt and my hand began to swell...
Thanks to that, the only thing I remember from Italy is the cactus、、、lol

Kiyono Momohime
The first time I talked in my sleep.
When I was about 3 years old, in a dream I was talking to a big cactus,
and I said out loud "H, h, hello!" lol
It's a memory which left a big impression on me.

Wow. two best friends connected by a cactus. that is fate.