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CHAPTER 18: THE HOSPITAL
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The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 33: THE WINTER SHIZI’S MUSHROOM GETA GREW INTO A TREE AND GRANDPA SAID IT’S TIME
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 33: THE WINTER SHIZI’S MUSHROOM GETA GREW INTO A TREE AND GRANDPA SAID IT’S TIMEThe mushroom geta had three mushrooms in November.By December, it had seven.Then eleven.Then eighteen.By December 15, Tanaka had counted twenty-two.The geta rested on the roof of the wall-less house beneath the persimmon tree. It was an old wooden sandal, lacquered and decorated with a cloth thong. It had belonged to Keiko’s mother, who had given it to Shizi when she was one year old.The original plan had been to bury it.Let it rest.Let it become part of the earth.But the geta had other plans.It grew mushrooms.Chengdu’s winter was different from Kyoto’s. The snow was wet and heavy. It fell, covered the courtyard, and disappeared before anyone could finish taking photographs.The mushrooms, however, remained.Tanaka had added a new section to his population pillar.MUSHROOM RECORDDecember 1: 7 mushrooms.December 5: 11 mushrooms.December 10: 18 mushrooms.December
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 32: THE YEAR SHIZI LEARNED THAT MIDDLE CAN BE LONELY AND BUILT A BRIDGE THAT IS NOT A
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 32: THE YEAR SHIZI LEARNED THAT MIDDLE CAN BE LONELY AND BUILT A BRIDGE THAT IS NOT A BRIDGEShizi was five years and three months old when she discovered loneliness.It was a strange discovery because she was never supposed to be alone.The population of Zhong House was now counted weekly by Tanaka, who had officially become the population officer of the middle country.His pillar in Gion had numbers carved into it.Week 1 of Year Five: 84 people.Week 2: 89 people.Week 5: 112 people, because Ms. Liu had brought forty parents from Red Star Kindergarten after they heard about circle teaching.Week 9: 156 people, because Mrs. Yamamoto’s yochien parents had travelled to Chengdu to see the wall-less house.All of them had removed their shoes.Some had even brought their own cushions.Tanaka had started carrying a second notebook because the first one was no longer enough.One hundred and fifty-six people.Living inside a five-year-old girl.How could a five
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 31: SHIZI TURNS FIVE AND DECIDES WHERE THE HOUSE IS
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 31: SHIZI TURNS FIVE AND DECIDES WHERE THE HOUSE ISShizi turned five on March 15.Five years old.Five years of barefoot arguments, mountain bentos, bilingual misunderstandings, peanut counting, crooked paintings, and one small girl who had somehow convinced two countries that the world was better when nobody insisted on choosing just one side.The persimmon tree was beginning to prepare for another season. Its branches were not yet heavy with fruit, but the family had already started discussing what the next harvest would look like.Grandpa was eighty now.His walking stick had five little carvings on it, one for each year of Shizi’s life.Keiko was seventy-two.Ren had filled three notebooks.Xiuying had painted one hundred and twelve paintings with her family.And Shizi?Shizi had a decision to make.For five years, both families had argued about where her birthday belonged.Chengdu said the courtyard.The tree was there. Grandpa was there. The mahjon
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 30: THE SUMMER GRANDPA GOT SICK AND SHIZI BECAME THE ROAD
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The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 29: THE SPRING SHIZI ASKED WHY HER NAME WAS TWO NAMES
THE SAKURA BETWEEN USCHAPTER 29: THE SPRING SHIZI ASKED WHY HER NAME WAS TWO NAMESAt four years and six months, Shizi learned to write her own name.In Chengdu kindergarten, Ms. Liu stood before the children with a piece of chalk.“Today, everybody will write their names!”The children opened their exercise books.“Wang Xiaoming!”“Here!”“Li Hua!”“Here!”Then Ms. Liu called:“Sato Renxi!”Shizi stood up proudly.She took her pencil and wrote:SATO RENXI.The letters were crooked.The R faced the wrong direction.The whole name looked as though it had been written by someone looking into a mirror.But it was her name.Ms. Liu clapped.“Wonderful, Shizi!”In Kyoto Yochien, Mrs. Yamamoto had a similar lesson.“Today, everyone will write their names in hiragana!”“Haru!”“Here!”“Yui!”“Here!”Then she called:“Sato Renxi-chan!”Shizi stood.She wrote:さとう れんしThe characters were uneven.One leaned too far left.Another looked as though it had given up halfway through.But it was her
The Sakura Between Us CHAPTER 28: THE WINTER SHIZI LOST A TOOTH AND BOTH GRANDPARENTS LOST THEIR
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