Love Pollen [Weekly Short Short Note]
"I can't live with you."
"Why? Don't we love each other?"
"Actually, I have an incurable disease."
"What... no, even so, I want to be with you."
"I have hay fever."
"Hay fever... ah, well, in the sense that once you get it, it never fully heals, I suppose that's true."
"I have eighty years left to live."
"That's just a normal long life, isn't it?"
"But eighty painful seasons are coming."
"In that sense, it certainly is painful."
"Every year, I shed a liter of tears and runny nose."
"That's quite something."
"I don't want you to see me like that."
"...No, I will accept you no matter what you look like."
"I'm happy you feel that way, but..."
"I want to eat your snot."
"I wish you had at least said that with tears in your eyes... But, if you're willing to go that far, maybe I can fight this disease with you."
"Then, come with me--"
"Yes, I'll go with you. To the Earth where you were born, where the cedar and cypress trees grow."
Thus, the movie "Crying Out Love in the Center of the Cedar Forest," which overcomes an incurable disease with love, became a huge hit.
