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Originally Posted by ddubb
Regarding what you say about Sempai in the FB chat. That its black and white, they are not peers, there's that one year age difference. That is just such an odd concept for any american to get their mind around. For us, when you're much younger, a year can be a somewhat significant difference.
But to our minds, by the time two people are 36/37, that difference would seem to melt away, and would consider themselves close enough to be considered virtually perfectly equal peers.
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36/37 doesn't make much difference if they met at that age (but it still makes a little) but she will always be a year older than her classmate from school, and that will never change. It's not odd for "any American" to get his head around, only ones not familiar with Japan.
If I misread her desires in the process, that is my mistake. I would suggest calling her Sa-chan.