The past few days have been very difficult. I'm fairly confident a lot of other folks share my sentiments.
Late Friday evening we learned that Mao Asada's mother Kyoko had passed away at the far too young age of 48.
Though some within the Japanese skating community were aware that Mao's mother had not been well for quite a while, it came as a shock to the great majority of people in this country.
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