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To speak of living...
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the hardest things
are separation and death.
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I was eight years old at the time.
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My grandmother was gravely ill.
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Her whole belly was swollen up.
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My mother was very devoted
to my grandmother.
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She set up a special altar...
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to pray to the heavens.
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She asked the Gods to take her life
in exchange for her mother's.
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If you call it superstition,
it's superstition.
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But if you believe in it...
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it will prove itself very swiftly.
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After only one month...
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my grandmother recovered...
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but my mother fell ill.
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She was taken
to a Japanese doctor.
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The diagnosis was bad news.
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She had tuberculosis.
:22:37
The doctor insisted that...
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she had to stay in the hospital.
:22:42
So, against her will,
that's what she did.
:22:45
She stayed for another two months,
and was released...
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on the 1 3th day of the 7th moon,
two days before the Ghost Festival.
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She was recovering slowly,
and was hungry.
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She discussed with my father,
and they decided...