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Article #8130 min read
Let Her Love You for Me
In the summer of 2008, I watched an interview with the singer Hitoto Yo. I had always thought of her as a woman of poise and intelligence, but from the moment the program began,...
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Article #809 min read
Love Like Sand Through Your Fingers
Inside Gu Xiang's bare room, Zhang Qirui begins to understand how narrow her life has become, until one old cat and one old name disturb the fragile calm.
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Article #798 min read
Love Like Sand Through Your Fingers
A memory of the year she entered Huayue pulls Gu Xiang back to the compromises of her girlhood, and in the present Zhang Qirui decides to find her in the rain.
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Article #788 min read
Love Like Sand Through Your Fingers
Zhang Qirui cannot forget the woman from the stall. In the rain he returns, recognizes Gu Xiang, and the weight of eight lost years begins to surface.
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Article #779 min read
Love Like Sand Through Your Fingers
Five years after prison, Gu Xiang lives quietly by the railway, making tiny handbags to survive, until a familiar face appears at her night-market stall.
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Article #768 min read
The Boring Model Student
Even many years later, Kitagawa Niro's speech at graduation was still brought out every year at class reunions, reheated like some famous side dish and served up with the drinks.
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Article #757 min read
The Wandering Bus and Its Last Passenger
The little counseling clubs in Sapporo always liked to choose playful names to attract people. The one I had just joined had only twelve members and called itself Secret Box.
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Article #7411 min read
The Old Butterfly Robe
The paper door of Kizuru Hall stood half open, and fine snow was falling outside.