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Kanos Long Story
* An Inquiry into the Nature of Pain I was born on May twenty-ninth, Kano began her story, and the night of my twentieth birthday, I resolved to take my own life.
I put a fresh cup of coffee in front of her. She added cream and gave it a languid stir. No sugar. I drank my coffee black, as always. The clock on the shelf continued its dry rapping on the walls of time.
Kano looked hard at me and said, I wonder if I should begin at the beginning-where I was born, family life, that kind of thing.
Whatever you like. Its up to you. Whatever you find most comfortable, I said.
I was the third of three children, she said. Malta and I have an older brother. My father ran his own clinic in Kanagawa Prefecture. The family had nothing you could call domestic problems. I grew up in an ordinary home, the kind you can find anywhere. My parents were very serious people who believed strongly in the value of hard work. They were rather strict with us, but it seems to me they also gave us a fair amount of autonomy where little things were concerned. We were well off, but my parents did not believe in giving their children extra money for frills. I suppose I had a rather frugal upbringing.
Malta was five years older than I. There had been something different about her from the beginning. She was able to guess things. Shed know that the patient in room so-and-so had just died, or exactly where they could find a lost wallet, or whatever. Everybody enjoyed this, at first, and often found it useful, but soon it began to bother my parents. They ordered her never to talk about things that did not have a clear basis in fact in the presence of other people. My father had his position as head of the hospital to think about. He didnt want people hearing that his daughter had supernatural powers. Malta put a lock on her mouth after that. Not only did she stop talking about things that did not have a clear basis in fact, but she rarely joined in even the most ordinary conversations.
To me, though, she opened her heart. We grew up very close. She would say, Dont ever tell anybody I told you this, and then shed say something like, Theres going to be a fire down the street or Auntie So-and-so in Setagaya is going to get worse. And she was always right. I was still just a little girl, so I thought it was great fun. It never occurred to me to be frightened or to find it eerie. Ever since I can remember, I would always follow my big sister around and expect to hear her message ............

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