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I’m at the final page of the epilogue. S- miss Fuji went on a walk to a bell tower. After then epilogue, the author acknowledged all the people who helped her make the book

S- she walks out of a store and was embarrassed and she out her head down. She walked with it down until she heard water which reminded her how close she was to nagashima.

She meets with someone and because of the leprosy, his wife says he was transfereed because of his company and they don’t see him anymore

She meets with someone and because of the leprosy, his wife says he was transfereed because of his company and they don’t see him anymore

S- she is back in town but doesn’t take an elevator where she is staying. She would rather go down five flights because she doesn’t like the feeling of dropping

S- she sees a needle and sees it as just an echo of her past and imagines the sound of it scraping against whetstone.

V- tanka: a Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood

S- she buys something with yen. 1 dollar is 109.92 Japanese yen

S- miss Fuji hears music and gets drawn to it. She finds a band with men on harmonicas playing.

Miss Fuji is walking with a patient who’s in a wheelchair and recalls that her mother always said she would get sick-S