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[center]... on a blindingly bright day ...
... on that very day of winter ...[/center]
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[center]Spring 1996: Setsumi[/center]
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(... true, I wasn't very healthy ever since I was a child ...)
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Even so, I attended elementary school like all the others,
and during summer breaks I often played until I was utterly tanned.
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June. Shortly after my entry into middle school.;b
The day after I'd ordered a swimsuit for use the next month.
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My first hospitalization.
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On a day just before the first semester midterms,
on a day when the first drops of rain were so cruelly cold.
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Falling from amidst the pure white of the overcast sky.
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Of course, the first time it happened,
all my classmates came to visit me almost every day.
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And when I was released,
they even came to my house on weekends to play.
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... but that was only the first time around.
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Autumn into winter, winter into spring, a vicious cycle:
hospitalization, release, clinics ... and hospitalization again ...
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And before I knew it, even the classmates I once called friends ...
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... turned into acquaintances ...
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... and then into strangers.
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As if with every changing of seasons,
I was being erased from their collective memory.
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"... it seems that to all those normal people ..."
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"... my very existence was an 'unpleasant' fact."
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"And so ... it looks like I've been erased ..."
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"I'd spent so many seasons, so many white overcast skies ...
without the want or need to converse with anybody ..."
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"For that matter, my English textbook never changed from that
of a 1st-year middle school student before the first midterms."
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"... that is where ...;b my time seems to come to an end."
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[center]Eight years later ... Early Summer 2004: Protagonist[/center]
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Summer. Flowing sweat.
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The gigantic electronic scoreboard
in the driver's license examination facility.
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Lit up all at once.
My eyes and everyone else's looked for our respective numbers.
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"237, 237 ..."
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And of some eight columns of lit text,
sure enough, my examination number was shining in the midst.
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A nearly-empty train car,
perhaps thanks to the beautiful afternoon.
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Almost alone in that train car,
I was heading back home from the examination hall.
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My left hand held a new traffic regulations handbook,
and my breast pocket held my brand new driver's license.
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"So now I've got a license as well ..."
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I muttered somewhat happily,
but there were no strong feelings behind it.
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I never particularly wanted to drive a car.
I never particularly had any motive for it.
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It was just that my colleagues and the technical institute
both recommended that I at least get a driver's license.
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That night.
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When I told my parents that I'd gotten my license,
they merely replied with an 'I see'.
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And when I asked if I could borrow the car, just for a test run,
they instantly and curtly said just one thing:;b 'no'.
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While I didn't really want to drive the car or anything,
the response was all-too-expected. Those were my parents for you.
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The next day.
I awoke with chest pain and went to the hospital.
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Sickness and I generally had nothing to do with each other.
Which is why I found the E.R. waiting room to be utterly boring.
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And just when I thought they were through examining me,
they ordered an X-ray and some blood tests. Then they left.
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And again, I was left waiting for a long, long time ...
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I'd already polished off 3 volumes of Shonen Jump
and was just about to start on a fourth when ...
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... they admitted me to the hospital right then and there.
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And it seemed that my new license,
which still lay snugly in my breast pocket ...
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... would have to wait a long time for its turn to come.
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[center]Protagonist: Autumn 2004[/center]
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Right around when the all-too-noisy cicadas had finally gone silent,
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I once again found myself in the hospital, as per usual.
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Of course, it wasn't as if I'd been there the entire time.
I came and went, came and went. A futile cycle.
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My first surgery was a month before. After that, I started
doing the 5-minute commute to and from the hospital by moped.
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And from then on, I was hospitalized, discharged, ordered to clinic,
and hospitalized again and again and again ...
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While I still had no clue what 'PET' or 'Iressa' stood for,
in no time at all, several months had already passed.
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As my appetite decreased, my medications increased.
I could feel my own physical strength atrophying away.
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I kept imagining that my legs were getting thinner,
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But the needle of the weight scale rudely informed me:
"It's not just your imagination."
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And yet I ...;b kept looking on at myself with detached interest.
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As if it were happening to somebody else entirely,
as if I were looking at a scene on TV or the like.
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My mind could not grasp what had so suddenly happened to my body.
Nothing within me was telling me that this was real at all.
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And that's why, even though it was all happening to me,
I kept looking on as if it were happening to someone far away.
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A day of winter.
Around when the Christmas trees had vanished from the streets,
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I was discharged home as a kind of year's end treat.
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It seemed like an exercise in total transience.
But still, it made me slightly happy.
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I traveled back to a home I had not seen in a long time
in the midst of a freezing rain.
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Strangely enough, my entire family was there.
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My parents, who had never so much as talked to me,
came out to meet me, if with terribly stilted smiles.
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And my little sister, with whom I'd never had a pleasant word,
had made my favorite cream stew and fried shrimp just for me.
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They made me sit at the table. They peeled tangerines for me.
They were cruelly kind. It was an impressive display.
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At this point ...;b a little thought occured to me.
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About my new driver's license,
which was still stuffed away in my pocket.
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That perhaps things would end for the license
without it ever having known any use.
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And surrounded by a trio of stilted, strained smiles ...
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I kept that thought, as if it were someone else's business,
with dispassion, ambiguity, and total disinterest.
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