They went back to Kamikochi in July.
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It was her idea. She had brought it up in May — the summer program, the town, the wall above the town — and he had said yes without asking why.
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They took the train to Matsumoto and the bus from Matsumoto to Kamikochi and they got off at the same stop they had gotten off at twenty years earlier. The bus stop was still there. The hotel was still there and still had not been renovated.
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They walked to the wall.
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It took forty minutes. The path was the same path. The river was the same river. The town was smaller than he remembered and the wall was lower than he remembered and the sky was the same sky.
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They sat down on the wall.
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They did not say anything for a long time.
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"I was fifteen," she said. "I sat here and I looked at the sky and I thought about what I wanted my life to be."
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"And."
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"I wanted it to be a film. I wanted it to be something that moved. I didn't want it to be a house and a husband and a garden. I wanted it to be movement."
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She looked at the river.
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"I got what I wanted," she said.
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He did not say anything.
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"I spent twenty years moving. I went to eleven countries and I filmed things I can't unsee and I met people I'll never see again and I never stayed anywhere long enough to have a garden. I got exactly what I wanted."
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She looked at him.
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"And I'm here," she said. "On this wall. Twenty years later. With you."
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He looked at the sky.
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"What do you want now," he said.
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She was quiet for a moment.
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"I want to be here," she said. "I want to be on this wall with you. I want to go back to Tokyo tomorrow and I want to go to work on Monday and I want to come home in the evening and I want to eat dinner at the counter. I want to put more things on the walls. I want to see Hana grow up. I want to see Mei start school. I want to know what Renji is going to be."
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She paused.
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"I want to stay," she said.
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He looked at her.
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"That's a commitment," he said.
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"I know."
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They sat on the wall for another hour.
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The sun went down behind the mountains and the sky turned orange and then red and then dark. The stars came out. There were more stars than there were in Tokyo. There were more stars than he had ever seen.
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She leaned against him.
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He put his arm around her.
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and then Add to home screen.