They lived in the apartment for eleven more years.
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The children grew up. Hana went to university and studied architecture. Renji went to university and studied film. Mei went to university and studied nothing in particular and then went to work at a production company in Shibuya that Saki had worked at fifteen years earlier.
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Yui remarried when the children were teenagers. Ren went to the wedding. Saki did not.
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Ren's mother died when he was forty-six. He went to the funeral alone. Saki stayed at the apartment and made dinner and was there when he came home.
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Saki's father had died when she was twenty-one and she had not spoken to him since she was seventeen and she did not go to the funeral and she did not talk about it.
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They sold the apartment when they were fifty and bought a small house in the suburbs with a garden. It was the first garden Saki had ever had. She planted tomatoes and did not know what she was doing and the tomatoes died and she planted them again the next year and they died again and she kept planting them.
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They did not get married.
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They did not have children.
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They did not do any of the things that people do when they are supposed to be settling down.
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They just kept living.27Please respect copyright.PENANAMuj8oSTWm4


