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Let's Go to the Movies
A thank-you gift from Nagakura Shinpachi.
They're tickets to a moving picture, that wonder of civilization I was lucky enough to witness, having survived the turbulent Bakumatsu era and gone on to live a long life. I often took my grandkid to a theater in Otaru. Wouldn't mind seeing one with you, too. Speaking of, the local hooligans liked to hang around the theater exit, but they'd scatter when I gave them a good glare.
Agh. I wonder which of us was the bigger loser there.
It is a fragment dreamed by a man who was left behind by a new era.

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