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Chapter 7 Okaasan Laura, the strange girl. She knows nothing of the sacrifices of life. She goes out with her friends when Takehiro is away in training, comes back all hours of the night and still is there first thing in the morning for the family greeting to the ancestral shrine, helps with the... Sign in to see full entry.

‘You two are really something else!’ Masa, short for Masahiro was saying. He had taken the seat at the counter next to Takehiro. We both knew what was coming next. ‘You are the only married couple I know who actually go out together, every week!’ He added with emphasis, like we should be museum... Sign in to see full entry.

CHAPTER 6 It was hot and sticky enough that the sweat beads accumulated without having to move a muscle. Just walking to our place covered us in sweat. It was six in the evening, but the slanting sun beat down like it was noon. Standing in the shadow of a building didn’t help as there was no breeze.... Sign in to see full entry.

The English school where I worked catered to mostly adults. I had a class of business men and women from where the school had a contract to fulfill the English learning needs of a certain companies. But people rarely showed up, even though, or because class was held at three in the afternoon. This... Sign in to see full entry.

CHAPTER 5 Who is to know the effects of ones life decisions on other people, particularly if one is not there to observe. My father sat at his study desk accepting condolences from one of his sheep for the prodigal daughter. Some of his church congregation were downright hostile. How could they keep... Sign in to see full entry.

CHAPTER 4 Laura Obaachan was my friend from the minute she first took me around the temple grounds. My early days at the temple were filled with her. I could always find her in the kitchen of the house. My mother-in-law would go to her work as a school teacher, Takehiro and his father would begin... Sign in to see full entry.

Chapter 3 Takehiro She stands there, my rare and beautiful bird, in her black kimono. Would she like to fly away forever? Or has the cage already been built. I’d like to stay by her side every step of the way, envelope her and protect her, show her every step, and wipe the tears from her eyes. But... Sign in to see full entry.

Our nights were for the rituals of love, for it felt like something almost sacred with him. We could loose ourselves in each other. Our love seemed in endless supply. I knew the atmosphere that we found ourselves in was conducive to this love. Only ourselves to think about, we could wrap ourselves... Sign in to see full entry.

Chapter 2 ‘A monk?’ The shock was the other side of the coin to my mother’s prior exclamation of curious enthusiasm she had displayed when I started telling them about Takehiro. The fact that I had met someone, was not news to my parents, as I had mentioned it on the phone. To my parents,... Sign in to see full entry.

That was May, and we saw each other all summer. I felt as if I was in the most beautiful crystal palace ever for the first time. I was in awe of everything, wanted to explore each shinny, bright beautiful object intimately, but was afraid to move for fear of breaking something. He had been on the... Sign in to see full entry.