{758}{870}{y:i}She's unconscious.|{y:i}It doesn't look good. {1785}{1850}Mom, the wipers... {2129}{2163}Thanks. {2386}{2436}{y:i}Now it all came back. {2446}{2553}{y:i}Two years ago, about now, when|{y:i}I couldn't go to school any more... {2556}{2652}{y:i}... I spent a month with Grandma,|{y:i}just the two of us. {2739}{2936}{y:i}THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS DEAD {3030}{3114}I'm not going back to school. {3218}{3309}It just makes me feel terrible. {3445}{3488}All right. {3510}{3588}Take some time off, then. {3605}{3695}It hasn't even been a month|since you started Grade 7. {3699}{3753}You don't have to|decide anything now. {3860}{3975}I've got to go.|I'll be back at 6, all right? {4469}{4493}Yes. {4499}{4589}Arguing will only make her|more stubborn. {4616}{4674}The reason? {4700}{4764}I don't know... {4785}{4863}She's always been|overly sensitive. {4882}{4969}She must have had|her feelings hurt. {5020}{5093}She's always walked|to a different drum. {5133}{5203}She just doesn't fit in. {5243}{5350}Anyway, I'm thinking of sending her|to my mother's for a while. {5393}{5465}I've heard of other kids|dropping out of school. {5478}{5554}I never thought my own daughter|would be one of them. {5581}{5651}So how are things with you? {5670}{5737}'Doesn't fit in'... {6202}{6356}{y:i}Maybe because she was half-Japanese,|{y:i}my mother never fit in at school. {6378}{6455}{y:i}Still, she made it through university. {6492}{6589}{y:i}And here I was dropping out of|{y:i}middle school. {6622}{6745}{y:i}What was my grandmother|{y:i}going to make of that? {9304}{9345}You're looking well. {9466}{9498}Mai... {9638}{9689}Hello, Grandma. {9768}{9802}You're here... {9897}{9954}Nothing's changed. {10322}{10365}In here? {10974}{11037}It's so nice and green|here now. {11040}{11089}Yes, it is. {11138}{11229}They've widened the road up here.|I was surprised. {11231}{11263}They have? {11266}{11289}You didn't know? {11367}{11405}Thank you. {11910}{11955}That's a nice breeze. {11984}{12041}Masao says hello. {12044}{12157}The new factory's starting up,|so he couldn't get back. {12195}{12284}You've got more herbs.|How many kinds do you have now? {12286}{12317}I don't know... {12319}{12377}That's lavender, isn't it. {12651}{12757}About Mai... {12821}{12895}I don't think|it's all that big a deal. {12946}{13041}She's always been very sensitive. {13044}{13095}I think that's the reason. {13150}{13308}Out here she can get over it.|It might be hard for you, though... {13310}{13377}'Doesn't fit in'... {13465}{13547}I'll be glad to have Mai here. {13572}{13715}I'm happy we have a girl|just like her. {13762}{13858}{y:i}I've always loved my grandma. {13867}{13979}{y:i}'Grandma, I love you'|{y:i}I'd say sometimes... {13982}{14097}{y:i}... and she'd give a little smile|{y:i}and answer... {14388}{14420}Mai... {14428}{14445}What? {14455}{14565}Go pick some lettuce and|nasturtium for making sandwiches. {14578}{14605}OK. {15698}{15724}Is this OK? {15753}{15792}Yes. {15910}{15978}Please wash them and|put them in here. {15981}{16011}How many leaves? {16014}{16085}Oh, three or four. {16374}{16414}Thank you. {17284}{17333}Mai, bring a plate|from the cabinet, please. {17425}{17443}This one? {17446}{17534}Yes, we'll use those plates|at most meal-times. {17537}{17587}Go get your cup from the car. {17590}{17634}I have cups. {17637}{17677}She brought her own. {17680}{17726}Oh. {17731}{17782}And bring the luggage. {17785}{17810}By myself? {17813}{17859}Use the cart. {19022}{19045}Hello. {19311}{19345}Who are you? {19393}{19457}This is my grandma's house. {19473}{19518}Here for a visit? {19549}{19616}I'm staying a while. {19626}{19665}I'm sick. {19700}{19752}Well, ain't you something! {19970}{20009}What's your problem? {20494}{20552}A weird man was looking in the car. {20554}{20609}That's probably Genji-san. {20651}{20695}Genji-san? {20698}{20763}Did he come back? {20766}{20829}Who is he? Where does he live? {20832}{20909}Mai, why don't you sit down? {20977}{21026}That's a nice cup. {21146}{21252}Genji lives in the house|at the foot of the lane. {21270}{21339}He does odd jobs for me. {21342}{21396}The place with the dogs barking? {21398}{21433}That's right. {21443}{21501}So he's divorced? {21524}{21626}I don't know. He seems to be|living there alone, though. {21916}{21968}Does he come here a lot? {21982}{22035}Not that often. {22074}{22165}Anyway, which bedroom|would you like? {22167}{22237}Grandpa's room, or your mother's? {22402}{22477}I'll take Mom's. {22538}{22579}Is it still how I left it? {22582}{22624}Yes. {22626}{22694}I'd better go tidy it up. {22697}{22734}Right now? {22737}{22800}I can't keep Mai waiting... {23062}{23086}She's gone... {23093}{23173}...to put away things|she doesn't want you to see. {23207}{23289}You've got things that you don't|want people to see, don't you? {23367}{23543}As one grows up, there are|more and more of those things. {23605}{23700}That's the room|your mother grew up in... {23729}{23794}...so she has a lot of them in there. {24394}{24477}Is Grandpa's room|still full of rocks? {24487}{24542}Yes. It's just the same. {24558}{24627}He loved rocks, didn't he. {24859}{24957}{y:i}I loved this picture of Grandpa. {24973}{25067}{y:i}He was a science teacher|{y:i}at a middle-school. {25070}{25138}{y:i}Grandma had come from England... {25141}{25238}{y:i}... all alone, to be|{y:i}an English teacher there. {25259}{25327}{y:i}They got married.... {25342}{25448}{y:i}... then had my mother,|{y:i}which is why I'm here. {25475}{25561}{y:i}Somehow that's amazing. {26175}{26213}Mom? {26544}{26584}Good morning. {26633}{26757}Your mother left early.|She said she had to get to work. {26794}{26825}Yeah. {27820}{27856}This is too much. {27858}{27923}Today we will be working|up on the hill. {27926}{27955}Doing what? {27958}{28058}First eat your breakfast,|then take a walk up there. {28065}{28115}A walk? {29859}{29897}Wow! {31840}{31892}For now, 'escape'. {32022}{32065}Mai! {32275}{32346}Let's get picking! {33041}{33133}Mai, open your mouth. {33266}{33308}It tastes of the hill. {33391}{33541}Your grandpa loved|wild-strawberry jam. {33545}{33621}He'd put it on anything. {33626}{33753}The only time he ever gave up|was when he tried it... {33757}{33827}...with cucumber. {33830}{33865}Cucumber?! {34046}{34152}And he never put it|on green vegetables again. {34286}{34331}Did Mom help you here? {34334}{34371}No. {34374}{34476}There weren't any strawberries|here then. {34505}{34647}They only started really growing here|the year after Grandpa died. {35068}{35164}Like a present from him. {35187}{35251}It really was. {35267}{35362}Because that day... {35379}{35486}...when I first found|a carpet of strawberries here... {35514}{35573}...was my birthday. {35617}{35681}Your grandpa never once... {35683}{35805}...forgot my birthday. {35981}{36069}You must have been really happy. {36111}{36169}I was so happy... {36173}{36253}...I squatted down here|and I cried. {37935}{38013}You're stronger than you look. {38531}{38611}Isn't all that sugar bad for you? {38614}{38641}It's fine. {38643}{38725}You never eat that much jam|all at once... {38727}{38805}...and the sweeter it is,|the longer it keeps. {38809}{38897}Mix that slowly, will you? {39696}{39771}You're good at that. {39915}{39986}Mai, trade with me. {40915}{41025}Having you help me this year... {41035}{41092}...made things a lot easier. {41120}{41236}I'll come and help next year,|and every year after that. {41726}{41817}{y:i}The jam we made|{y:i}had all the bittersweetness... {41819}{41897}{y:i}... of the plants in the woods|{y:i}behind the house. {42304}{42373}You have a good sense of color. {42411}{42515}This mint green is beautiful. {43370}{43417}What are you sewing? {43434}{43489}An apron for someone. {43557}{43671}This is one of|your mother's old nightgowns. {43711}{43837}I'll make the top|into a smock for you. {43842}{43924}And the hem can be|an apron for the kitchen. {43971}{44036}Grandma, I love you! {44167}{44241}Do you know what a witch is? {44251}{44283}A witch? {44291}{44359}Someone who rides on a broom? {44382}{44461}Not quite, but that's the idea. {44463}{44516}I've seen them on TV... {44566}{44613}They really do exist. {44671}{44733}My grandmother was one. {44767}{44913}She could see into the future,|and she was clairvoyant. {45047}{45181}My grandfather came to Japan once,|more than a hundred years ago. {45206}{45353}My grandmother was only 19 then.|They were engaged. {45434}{45513}One afternoon|she was crocheting... {45517}{45625}...some doilies for when|they were to be married. {45637}{45713}Then suddenly,|right in front of her... {45719}{45850}...she saw the sea at night,|and my grandfather swimming... {45852}{45913}...all alone. {45959}{46059}Something made her call out,|'Go right! ' {46062}{46157}At that very same time,|my grandfather had been on a ship... {46160}{46259}...and he'd slipped somehow|and fallen overboard. {46281}{46357}But the ship just kept on going. {46409}{46531}There was nothing else to do|but start swimming after it. {46551}{46637}After a while he began to think|he was lost... {46654}{46717}...and he called out Grandma's name. {46733}{46781}And right then... {46787}{46943}...he suddenly heard her dear voice|calling out to him. {46946}{46988}'Go right! ' {47009}{47111}He turned to his right|and started swimming. {47114}{47229}Soon he reached the shore,|and he was safe. {47391}{47523}He told my grandmother|about this experience in a letter. {47564}{47715}She wrote back saying she was happy|he was safe, but nothing else. {47727}{47760}Why not? {47763}{47860}She should have said|'it was me who saved you.' {47883}{47945}That's what tho...
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