Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

People like pretty things. When you’re pretty, everybody wants to look at you, they want to touch you. I wanted that for myself. Prettiness means value. But some people never experience that personally.

Writing makes me happy. But it goes beyond that. Writing is my life’s work. I am absolutely positive that this is what I’m here to do. Even if it turns out that I don’t have the ability, and no one out there wants to read a single word of it, there’s nothing I can do about this feeling. I can’t make it go away.

Besides, most men can’t even talk to their own families without a woman around. It’s pathetic, really. They’ll just sit around the room all day and leave everything around the house up to the women.”

“Exactly,” Aizawa laughed. “Maybe this is a very special day. The day that someone finally understood how kind you truly are.”

We spent a little time playing with her Licca dolls, some Calico Critters and a few Pretty Cure outfits and accessories.