How on earth, on this vast planet of eight billion humans, do two small human beings who are destined for each other manage to meet? A more cynical person than Kenji would say that they don’t—or, rather, that they aren’t. Destined, that is. For, surely, people do meet, and they fall in love, but those meetings are random, mere happenstance, and destiny is just the story they tell themselves afterward. But what a sweet story it is! And in the end, to us, that’s what really matters. That’s what books are for, after all, to tell your stories, to hold them and keep them safe between our covers for
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