"Autumn spiraled downward, every day a little more. One morning, after my usual walk down the tree-lined street, I entered the schoolyard to find a kind of flower whose name I didn't know, blooming in the beds inside the gate. Round blossoms with giant petals of light pink and white, popping up like carefree afterthoughts from a surface of dry algae.
"It must have been some kind of flower that only grows in fall. But captivated as I was, I realized this was just another marvel from a world that would never accept me."
~~ from Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
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