The first letter arrived on the fourth of September.
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It was written on lined notebook paper in blue ink and it was four pages long. It said that school had started and that her homeroom teacher was a man named Mr. Ono who was very old and very slow and that she had already decided she was going to hate him. It said that she had joined the film club and that they were making a short film about a girl who could not sleep. It said that her mother had been angry about something and she did not know what and she did not ask.
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It said that she had thought about the wall above the town three times since she got home.
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Ren read it four times on the day it arrived.
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He wrote back that night.
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They wrote to each other for eleven months. Twelve letters each. Sometimes more. Ren kept all of hers in a shoebox under his bed. He did not know what she did with his.
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They wrote about school and about music and about the future. They wrote about a documentary she had seen and a building he had visited and a book they had both read. They wrote about nothing. They wrote about everything.
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They did not write about feelings.
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They wrote around feelings.
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In April she wrote that she had been accepted into a film program for high school students and that it was in Kyoto and that she would be moving there in the summer with her mother.
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In May she wrote that the move was taking longer than expected and that her address might change and that she would write again when she knew the new one.
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Ren wrote back to the old address on the first of June.
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He did not get a reply.
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He wrote again on the fifteenth.
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He wrote again on the first of July.
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He wrote a fourth letter on the twenty-second of July that was three pages long and that he did not keep a copy of and that he was not sure he would have wanted to keep.
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He did not get a reply.
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In August he got a letter back. It was not from Saki. It was from the postal service, informing him that the forwarding address on file had expired and that his letter had been returned to sender.
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He put the shoebox under his bed and closed it.
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