“So, what’s next?”

They'd been silent for a while now, and the sun had begun to set. At that, she turned around and with the most radiant smile yet, she said

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「いっしょに帰ってくれてありがとう。今まで生きのびてくれてありがとう。そして、これからも生き続けてくださいね。自分らしい生き方で、君ならそれができる、君相応しい生き方だ。」

言いたいことだけ言って、she fell to the ground, never to rise again.

♫

And there they still lay, buried six feet deep, together at last, united by death, together as one family.