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The next day, I was on a street, casting my eyes at the letters in black and red on the back of Melba’s tee shirt, which read ‘I ♥ NINOY!" The former Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. had been assassinated in August the previous year. So it ha…

どんな退職後の暮らしを考えていますか ---------- カリフォルニア州内の駐車場でコネティカット州とカリフォルニア州、ペンシルヴェニア州の３台の車が隣同士で並んでいるところを目撃する確率というのは、統計学的にいえば、いったいどのぐらいなのでしょ…

August, 1984 --Chapter 8 -- I was somehow finished with a half plate of the pansit Canton. Fortunately to me, Melba had not asked me any more questions during the meal.And that had given me back some composure. I had come to think, ‘She mu…

August, 1984 -- Chapter 7 -- The dormitory simply consisted of one big bedroom, which apparently had been remodeled from its original structure of two rooms, and a kitchenette. Girls were divided into two groups: One, chatting loud in the …

＜They were zero, nothing, merely rich and not very bright thieves, and further, the sort of "messengers" Carlos would avoid like lepers.＞ 上の一文は Robert Ludlum という作家が書いた "The Bourne Ultimatum" という小説の中にあったものです（…

秋の文化功労者顕彰式の際に、記念撮影前の待ち時間が長くて手持ち無沙汰になったものか、受賞者の一人、漫画家の水木しげるさんが脚を組もうとしたのを妻の布枝さんが制するところをテレビニュースで見ました。見て、ああ、この漫画家は、因習に囚われない…

＜２００５年の１２月に書いた文章です。事故が起こったのはカリフォルニア州リヴァーサイド郡のヘッメット市内でした＞ 今回は交通事故にあってしまったという話です。 長い文章ですが、アメリカでの交通事故の処理などに興味がある方は読んでください。 き…

第6話 August, 1984 --Chapter 6 -- It was after 3:30 a.m. already. The air outside Sakura’s building was still very damp. Few people were seen on the street right and left. Across the street, a taxi was waiting for Lisa who, in a simple whi…

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第5話 August, 1984 -- Chapter 5 -- Takano-san left Sakura for his hotel -Ermita Apartment Inn- a little after midnight. I did not insist too many times that he should take a taxi on the way back since the hotel was in fact in a walking dis…

第4話 August, 1984 --Chapter 4-- Thank goodness, mama Lisa finally returned to our table. “Hey, what are you guys doing? Is this somebody’s funeral or what?" Lisa slapped Takano-san’s shoulder. “How many times do I have to tell you, Takano…

第3話 August 1984 -- Chapter 3 -- Takano-san was my first customer in that evening. And it was the very day I began working at the Karaoke Saloon Sakura again after giving birth to my second daughter -Yuki- in my hometown in Bulacan Provin…

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第2話 August 1984 --Chapter 2 -- I attempted to explain to Takano-san what kind of danger was awaiting him, where in Metro Manila. It did not take much time for me, however, to realize it was way too late. He had already visited virtually …

“Nothing, I’ve been just wandering about Metro Manila, instead, perhaps, looking for..." Takano-san hesitated in the middle of his answer. And then his hesitation turned into a sudden wry smile. “Well, looking for ’something'. ...Though I …

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ちょうど４０年前の１９６８年の秋ごろに、友人のＨ君からこんな話を聞きました。 これは、そのＨ君が彼の友人Ａ君から聞いた話です。 Ａ君には、中国（長期旅行）から戻ってきたばかりのＢ君という友人がいました。 そのＢ君がＡ君にした“みやげ話”の中にこ…

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