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He killed his first man at thirteen. He fought in sixty-one duels and lost none of them. He died in a cave, sitting upright, with a brush in his hand. Tonight, you live the whole life from inside.

I have read about Musashi for forty years, and the story I keep coming back to is not the duel on the island. It is the boy at the temple, six years old, with the wrong skin and a wooden sword that fits his hand better than the world fits him. The sword saint was born twice. Once in a small village in 1584. Once on the morning he stopped fighting.⁠

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