There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you canβt bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured. β¨ Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). Three Plays, p.42, Grove Press
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