Please let me share my thoughts on shiiimo's novel🌹

shiiimo-san, with whom I have a friendly relationship.
I had been thinking that since updates have been sparse lately, you must be busy living life to the fullest.
And yet, in the midst of that busyness, you managed to complete such a masterpiece👏

I'm starting to feel nervous, like I'm writing a review or testimonial (lol)

Within the fictional text, I could smell the scent of a living person, likely mixed with real-life experiences.
Feelings were breathed into it, and before I knew it, those thoughts overlapped with my own experiences.

Painful emotions.
Sad emotions.
Emotions that usually have nowhere to go and cannot be shown to others flow from the text into me.

A novel is sometimes a place where you become aware of feelings and thoughts you hadn't noticed before.
Even though it's not something I experienced myself, I feel as if I am there, and sometimes tears stream down my face.

I have experienced those same feelings before.
In that real world, I kept them locked away in my heart, swallowed them, and because I couldn't digest them, they just remained as anger and anxiety.

I find the drawer of memories from that time within the text and recall them.
I remembered those feelings I couldn't digest back then, and now that time has passed, I was able to view them from a bird's-eye perspective.

Before I knew it, Ai-chan in the novel had become me.
Sacchan had become the image of my son when he was little.

In writing that allows me to feel the presence of people so clearly, even if it is a story about a parallel world, I realize there are people living in the same world with the same thoughts.
And realizing that it is me, I feel saved.

I am not alone.
Let's do our best together.
Ai-chan and Sacchan are living in that world.
I and my children are living in this world.

Kept alive by someone, given courage, and sometimes hurt.

Even so, we are somehow managing to live.

Because shedding tears
cleanses the heart.

Thank you for letting me read such a wonderful novel.
A book written with all your heart.
Thank you very much.