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How did you remember me this time?
I still have your journal. I write in it every week.
What do you write?
Anything I think about. When I started it was complete sentences,
very long thoughts about every day. But now I'm running out of room,
so I have to be more careful with words. A few phrases. Only the most
important things. Just enough for me to remember if I read it.
He nods earnestly. That's often how it goes. But I'm running out
of room. Only a few pages left. You have another book?
Not with me. It is true, he has left the bulk of his
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notebooks with his luggage back at the train station. But you can
buy a new one.
But it won't be right until you write in it.
Next time I'm here, you can give it to me.
Something resembling mischief flashes in her eyes. I may have forgotten
about you by then.
I'll have to take that chance, then.
I was reading about your travels in the west.
You could understand what I wrote?
Not immediately. I had to learn the language. I'm still learning.
Five new words a day, that's my goal.
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