To dear Takagi Mayumi:

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To the most dangerous area——南三陸町，all I can say is: When you are trapped by the sorrow, What you really are you do not see, what you see is your shadow of light and hope.

Let Sorrow hush into peace in your heart and dissolve away like the evening among the silent trees.

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To the innocent people who lost their precious life in the earthquake, I would pray that let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

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Just because God almighty doesn‘t love you the way you want him to, doesn‘t mean he don‘t love you with all that he have.

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If南三陸町were too terrible to?be able to stay,?I have to remind you:

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

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Be true to yourself, to your heart, to the end of your life,

Cause to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

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And finally, the last world I could figure out to whisper to you:

Because oceans apart, once we dreamt that we were strangers.

Although oceans apart, we wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

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I wish you all the best!

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Adapted from Tagore’s poem

????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Your sincerely pen-friend

????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Yangliang

????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 2010 5 12 23 :51