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"But close friends?! Like, a friend I can tell anything without feeling ashamed or inferior? No, I don't have such a one.” Back home in my Water Lily Land, my father had many friends. They used to come to our house, hang out for a long time, and talk about many things. I didn’t understand the subject of topics, they were just words and sounds to me, but I can now remember their curved bodies trilling with laughter. They liked to drink a lot of tea. Their faces were always bright like happy cats, cheerful like blue periwinkles. My mother...
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