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#166 About The Wedding
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2024-11-26 07:02:30“They asked about what?”
Kenji, who was in the middle of cutting fish and helping Akiko prepare dinner, turned to look at Akiko sitting at the dining table. She was picking spinach.
After Kenji had finished telling her about the events at work—he had to rush someone to the hospital in his car earlier that day—Akiko began to recount her day.
All the village had was one ambulance, and one of its tires was flat. So Kenji had to take on extra duty and drive a patient who was struggling to breathe to the nearest town.
It was quite an eventful day, but Akiko's day turned out to be just as exciting, despite the fact that she only went to Miura’s house.
“They inquired about the details of our wedding. I almost died from panic.”
Akiko complained about what happened earlier that afternoon when she joined Miura in harvesting fish from the pond behind her house.
The pond was quite large, so Miura had call
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