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You were raised in the city, Asako, so I’m sure you’ll laugh when you read this, wondering what could possibly lead them to these ideas. Then what? What’ll you do if you get hooked on drugs? Or get killed? Some lowlife might trick you, they argued, and force you into prostitution. When I told my parents I wanted to go to Tokyo for college, both of them were dead set against it. I lived in the college dorm for four years. The first time I realized this-that besides the clean air the town had little else to recommend it-was seven years ago, after I’d graduated from high school and gone on to a women’s college in Tokyo. The only good thing about that town I grew up in is the sparkling clean air. They never seem aware of how rude they are sometimes.

I was worried all through the ceremony that when you saw the crowd of my relatives who’d come from that country town you’d remember the events that took place back then, back in that town, and be upset. Thank you so much for attending my wedding the other day.