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|birth_name = Ano Tekoshi
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|05|01|df=yes}}
|birth_place = EastroviaMasako, [[East Malaysia]]
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==Early Life==
Ano Tekoshi was born in EastroviaMasako, theEast capitalMalaysia, cityinside ofthe EastNekomimi Malaysiareservation. In his memoirs, ''From East to West'', Tekoshi says that he was interested in traveling to other places from a very young age. His mother was a travel agent, and his father was an airline pilot. He was able to take "many vacations to many different places," he said in the book, including a trip to Crystal Coast, [[Acronis]] when he was 11. "I immediately fell in love with the country and decided then and there that I would live there some day."
Tekoshi went to the University of PromePrometheusburg in East Malaysia and earned a bachelor's degree in Public Affairs. True to his word, after graduation in 1993 he moved to Acronis. Because no university in East Malaysia had taught Acronian as a course, he had studied Acronian in his spare time between classes and at night, including using audio cassette tapes that he had to pay to have shipped from Acronis to East Malaysia. His first job in Acronis was teaching Codexian to elementary school students, which he did for six years. At night and on weekends he attended [[Akronism|Akronist]] religious study classes, and formally underwent conversion to Akronism in 1995. In 1999, he applied for Acronian citizenship and renounced citizenship of East Malaysia. At his citizenship ceremony, the presiding official from the Bureau of Immigration said that Tekoshi was the first nekomimi to become an Acronian citizen in more than 40 years.
Upon accepting Acronian citizenship, Tekoshi changed his name to include what Acronians call a "line name" or "clan name," as required by Acronian law. Immigrants to Acronis that are not descended from any Acronian clan by blood are free to adopt any name they wish as their line name, and some choose to go through the process of becoming formally "adopted" by an extant Acronian clan. Tekoshi, however, chose to adopt the Acronian word "Elat" (meaning "east") as his line name as a nod to his East Malaysian heritage.
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