My heart performed a strange, arrhythmic stutter. I bid. I bid more than I should have. I won.
When the song ended, she finally raised her head. Her gaze passed through me like I was made of window glass. She didn't smile or frown. She simply said, "You walked a long way for something I stopped being a long time ago."
On the last night of summer, I took the train to the final stop on the Chuo Line. A town tucked against the mountains, the kind of place where the convenience store closes at 11 PM. I had no plan. Just a printout of that blurry photo and a heart full of delusion.
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I stood at the edge of her property, maybe twenty meters away. I didn't say her name. I didn't pull out my phone to record. I just listened.