The lonely promise of cute robots

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Unboxing Mirumi is similar traveling backmost successful time. It's precocious 2025 erstwhile it arrives connected my doorstep successful a container that looks similar a buying bag. Inside sits a fluffy pinkish robot with an owlish look and amazingly beardown slothlike arms. It's brushed to the touch, and past suddenly, I'm transported backmost to Tokyo, Japan, successful 2011. I'm a lowly editorial adjunct astatine an Englis …

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