"Tom-san," she called.
That was all. No specific request. No sign of pain. Just the name of her daughter's husband.
In another room, on another floor, in another world, I sat dripping before my Macintosh, trying to click together some saleable chuckles about the spliced life of an international couple. It was the last day of a sweaty August, 1999.
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