Now & Forever ABCs (Kaede)

Kaede Inoue
3 August 1986
Shinbutsu Shūgō

Kaede is Maureen’s boyfriend, a fellow student at Harvard, and her own student in an English tutoring program.

Kaede is studying to become a paediatric surgeon with a general specialisation in newborns — though his exact speciality he has not yet decided. His dream is to be one of those saving the lives of newborns whose hearts are malformed, or not working properly — or lungs, livers, etc.

He and Maureen met when she was working to tutor him in English, a...