Three Days Back Home: A Record of Forgetting Time and Loving My Long‑Admired Classmate Who Had Become a Married Woman — 神宮寺ナオ

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This summer, with the cicadas' song never stopping, I returned to my hometown during the holidays as I do each year. I put my hands together at the family altar for my mother, exchanged a few words with my father, and headed to the park where I was to meet my friend Takashi. While brooding by the lake, I was suddenly tapped on the shoulder. When I turned around, there was Nao — the girl I had always loved in school. She was now Takashi's wife. The two of them invited me to their home for a meal. Little did I know that the clock hands that had stopped in our school days would begin to move again…