We met Darsh at an English Conversation Night that our neighbor facilitated once a week called Should Be Cool. Most of the members had nicknames that they went by and I'll never forget Darsh explaining that his came from the old anime/manga series Bastard. That already gave him a bunch of cool points in my book but his frequent trips overseas and interest in boxing just gave him more and more. Oh, and his love of drinking! I can't ever forget our occasional Should Be Cool nomikai and how I'd always look at Darsh and just smile because we were both in the zone and having a lot of fun. I still haven't watched or read Bastard. I have one volume of the manga but it's a pretty expensive series and the anime has been in my head ever since I saw previews (literal text previews) on the old Pioneer anime DVDs (I'm thinking it was on my Tenchi in Tokyo or Sailor Moon R: Promise of the Rose discs. Regardless, this Darsh is the one I'll always think of when it gets brought up. We didn't get to see him a lot the in the summer leading up to us leaving, but I really hope our paths cross again. He had mentioned something about either currently operating or wanting to start some type of prison inmate communication/book delivery business...
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