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nd down, pushing Junpei away.
quot;No,quot; sly, s;e cant do ts ;
Junpei apologized. Sayoko said not ime. t till t, in fact, try as after t, o recall title or the melody.
quot;You dont o apologize,quot; Sayoko said. quot;Its not your fault.quot;
quot;I t; Junpei said ly.
Sayoko reac and laid ;Come back to scomorro;
quot;So muc not enoug; he said.
quot;ts not true,quot; s;t is so not true.quot;
Junpei to day, and tig takatsuki, and Sayoko continued tion. Junpeis s-lived desire to disappear disappeared itself. By day in ment and pressing o least confused. t been to make it.
Sayoko sometimes introduced Junpei to a classmate of e. of one of t time, just before iet ender to never passionate or devoted. Sually elsetern repeated itself any number of times.
ed, Junpeis parents discovered t erature, not economics, and turned ugly. ed o take over t Junpei ention of doing t. ed to stay in tokyo and keep ing fiction. t argument ensued. ords s s again, and it o be t along s, Junpei clasime he was a child.
Junpei took a series of part-time jobs t o scrape by as inued to e fiction. ory, to Sayoko and got opinion, t according to ions. Until se it again and again, carefully and patiently. or, and o no ers group.
y-four, a story of erary magazine, and over t five years Junpei ed for ted Akutagaimes, but ually . ernally promising candidate. A typical opinion from a judge on ttee ;For sucing o