“When I was a kid, it always felt like summer vacation lasted forever,” I said, letting the words come out before I thought them over. I hiccupped, but I decided I wasn’t going to worry about that. I could hear my own voice, yet it didn’t sound like I was doing the talking. The kids reached the other side of the white-hot crosswalk and disappeared up the street. “Well, some people say it feels that way for kids because they haven’t been around for long, or had that much experience with time,” Mitsutsuka said. “Of course, there’s no way to prove that.” “Does that mean that the longer we live,
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