Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags…

Banana Yoshimoto
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Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). Goodbye Tsugumi, p.104, Grove Press
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Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). Goodbye Tsugumi, p.104, Grove Press

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