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hen it happens. We meet for a drink. We talk. Nothing feels started or ended, nothing feels alive or resolved. Nozaki drives me home, drops me off in front of the ABC SchoolandNatsume-san’shouse.Thereisnothingunusual about this night, save one small gesture. The absence of a gesture. Goodnight, he says. Goodnight, she says, moving to kiss him on the cheek. And the man turns away. And not right then, but later, the mind catches up with what the body takes in, what the body right now would like desperately to ignore. And it’s over, the body knows. It’s through. This man is through with you. T ................................................................................ ...

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