7
60
Suddenly, I remembered her last check–up.
I quickly stood up and found the hospital.
When I saw her test report.
I finally
understood
why she suddenly came back.
Last time in the cemetery, she was so emotional.
It turned out she had already planned to leave.
I held her test report.
The words written above, late–stage stomach cancer, pierced my eyes.
She was getting thinner day by day, not because she wanted to lose weight,
but because she was so sick to eat.
60% 12:10
1/2
7
She came back, not because she knew the
town was going to build a playground.
This truth was like a needle, fiercely
piercing into my heart.
If… if I had discovered it earlier,
would all of this be different?
I was wrong,
to an extreme.