He was twenty years old and in his third year of architecture at a university in Tokyo and he was in a used bookstore in Jinbocho on a Saturday in October because he was looking for a monograph on Ando that he did not want to pay full price for.
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The store was four floors and the architecture section was on the third floor and the stairs were narrow and the aisles were narrower.
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He found the monograph.
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He was reaching for it when a hand reached past him and took it first.
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He turned around.
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Saki Mori was standing there holding the book.
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She had shorter hair than he remembered. She was wearing a jacket that was too big for her and a scarf that did not match it and she was carrying a canvas bag with a camera inside it and she was looking at him with an expression that he could not read.
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Neither of them said anything for a long moment.
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"You," she said.
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"Me," he said.
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They went to a ramen shop because it was the only place either of them could think of.
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They sat at the counter and ordered and did not speak until the food came.
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She was in Tokyo for a week, she said. She was studying film in Kyoto and she had come up to visit a friend from high school who had moved to the city. The friend had canceled. She had been walking around Jinbocho for four hours.
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He asked why she had stopped writing.
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She was quiet for a moment. Then she said that her mother had moved them twice in three months and that the first move had been because of a job and the second had been because of a man and that she had not known the second address for a week and by the time she did know it she had lost his letter and did not know how to write to him without explaining and did not know how to explain.
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She said she had thought about writing to him every month for five years.
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She said she had never done it.
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Ren did not say anything.
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They finished the ramen.
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The friend had canceled. So she had nowhere to stay.
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She stayed on the floor of his apartment for three nights.
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They did not sleep together. They did not talk about why. They just spent three days together - the gallery at Ueno, the river at dusk, the ramen shop again, a walk through Yanesen that took four hours and ended in a park where they sat on a bench and watched two old men play shogi.
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On the third night she sat on the floor of his apartment with her back against the wall and he sat on the edge of his bed and they talked until three in the morning.
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She told him about the film program and about the short film she was working on. She told him about her mother and the man and the two moves. She told him about the thing she had never told anyone.
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He told her about his parents and the divorce that had happened when he was seventeen. He told her about the apartment he had lived in with his mother for a year before his father moved out and he and his mother moved back in. He told her about the shoebox.
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She did not say anything when he told her about the shoebox.
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She looked at him for a long time.
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Then she got up and walked to the door and put her shoes on.
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"Where are you going," he said.
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"I have a train at six," she said.
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It was three in the morning.
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She left at four.
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He woke up at seven and she was gone. There was a note on the kitchen counter written on the back of a receipt.
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I'm sorry. - S.
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He read it twice and put it in the drawer and did not look at it again for five years.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqk6cUF31k
and then Add to home screen.