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by Kazuki Kaneshiro

“A shooting star? There’s absolutely nothing more embarrassing than gazing up at the sky with a boy and seeing a shooting star. Don’t you think?”

“A lone person devoted to reading novels has the power equal to a hundred people gathered at a meeting.”

I thought most of the things Sakurai recommended to me were cool. Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Cecil Taylor, Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Debussy . . . but John Coltrane just wasn’t my cup of tea. She asked me why. “Too dark.”