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What it's like traveling with Aaron Patterson

During our visit to Zamami Island with Aaron earlier this week, a young woman approached us and asked if we spoke English. (This is exceedingly rare. In 20 years of traveling to Japan, I don't think anyone has ever assumed I speak anything but English.) She proceeded to ask Aaron if he'd take her group's picture, so I snapped this photo of him obliging:

Later in the day I mentioned having taken a picture of him taking the picture and he responded, "oh yeah, I took a selfie!"

So I zoomed:

And then I enhanced:

Yep. Sure as shit, there's Aaron taking a selfie with this girl's camera.

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