I will note a result in my forum thread here. I have one other place I make note as well, but I do not give a location without proper reasoning. Some [kanji] come in different forms, but with similar pronunciations, even the same words, as shown earlier...
Oh, lots of reasons, actually. When I was a kid I folded origami animals and played go. In graduate school, I became very interested in Zen Buddhism. Later on, I fell in love with kanji, and I actually spent a long time playing with them before studying either Japanese or Chinese. Then, at the ripe old age of 50, a younger coworker made a concerted effort to get me hooked on anime, and succeeded; from there I moved on to manga. I'd kind of like to spend some years in Japan teaching English, but I don't know whether I will ever do it.
It IS a pretty odd question, but I will answer it anyway. No, I am single, and have no family and only one friend who is a nihonjin, and I have never spoken more than greetings with that friend in nihongo.
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