WEEKEND SCENE » Tessa Uchimura, 4, couldn't contain her enthusiasm yesterday morning before a blessing by priest Shinken Naitoh during the annual Back-to-School Education Blessing at the Shinto shrine Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha-Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu in Kalihi.
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