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and shoot him in the head
with an automatic rifle.
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In that place, the boundary
between life and death...
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Was as slim as a single strand of hair
:05:41
Takitani Shozaburo
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returned to Japan,
no more than a bag of bones,
:05:48
In the spring of 1946
:05:59
He found his home had been
destroyed in the firebombing,
:06:04
and his parents and his only brother,
:06:08
lost to the same fate
:06:11
In other words, he was then...
:06:15
utterly alone in the world
:06:46
Eventually,
:06:48
he married a distant relative
on his mother's side.
:06:59
A year after they were married,
they had a baby boy,