Kind of like playing nurseThat's how I learned
When Hatsumi had finished with the bandage, she went and fetched
two cans of beer from the fridgeShe drank half of hers, and I drank
mine plus the half she leftThen she showed me pictures of the other
girls in her clubShe was right: some of them were cute"Any time you decide you want a girlfriend, come to me," she said"I'll fix you up straight away
'All right, Toru, tell me the truthYou think I'm an old matchmaker,
don't you?"
"To some extent," I said, telling her the truth, but with a smileShe looked good when she smiled"Tell me something else, Toru," she said"What do you think
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Nagasawa and me?"
"What do you mean what do I think? About what?"
"About what I ought to do
"It doesn't matter what I think," I said, taking a slug of cold beer257
"That's all rightTell me exactly what you think
"Well, if I were you, I'd leave himI'd find someone with a more
normal way of looking at things and live happily ever afterThere's no
way in hell you can be happy with himThe way he lives, it never
crosses his mind to try to make himself happy or to make others
happyStaying with him will only wreck your nervous systemTo me,
it's already a miracle that you've been with him three yearsOf course,
I'm very fond of him in
chanel costume jewelry my own wayHe's fun, and he has lots of great
qualitiesHe has strengths and abilities that I could never hope to matchBut in
the end, his ideas about things and the way he lives his life are not
normalSometimes, when I'm talking to him, I feel as if I'm going
around and around in circlesThe same process that takes him higher
and higher leaves me going around in circlesIt makes me feel so
empty! Finally, our very systems are totally differentDo you see
what I'm saying?"
"I do," Hatsumi said as she brought me another beer from the fridge"Plus, after he gets into the Foreign Ministry and does a year of
training, he'll be going
tiffany replica abroadWhat are you going to do all that time?
Wait for him? He has no intention of marrying anyone
"So I've got nothing else to say
"I see," said HatsumiI slowly filled my glass with beer"You know, when we were playing pool before, something popped
into my mind," I said"I was an only child, but all the time I was
growing up I never once felt deprived or wished I had brothers or
sistersI was happy being aloneBut all of a sudden, playing pool with
you, I had this feeling that I wished I had had an elder sister like you -
really chic and a knockout in a midnight-blue dress and gold earrings
and great with a pool cue
Hatsumi flashed me a
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anybody's said to me in the past year," she said
"All I want for you," I said, blushing, "is for you to be happyYou seem like someone who could be happy with just
about anybody, so how did you end up with Nagasawa of all people?"
"Things like that just happenThere's probably not much you can do
about themIt's certainly true in my caseOf course, Nagasawa would
say it's my responsibility, not his'
"I'm sure he would
"But anyway, Toru, I'm not the smartest girl in the worldIf anything,
I'm sort of on the stupid side, and old-fashionedI couldn't care less
about "systems' and
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