Ecce homo. "Behold the man." This man bears a cross called cancer. He's Christ. If you were diagnosed with cancer, you'd start dying right away. But not this fellow. That's when he started living.
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Kanji: Well, yours had holes in them.Toyo: Do holes in my stockings make your feet cold?Kanji: Don't get me wrong...Toyo: I was just kidding. I know you did it out of kindness, but I feel awkward at times like this. That's why I made a bad joke. Forgive me.
Kanji: ...I did it all for my son's sake. But as it turned out, my son doesn't seem to give a whit.Toyo: But you can't blame it all on your son... Not unless he asked you to make a mummy of yourself. My mom gives me the same kind of line sometimes. "The things I've suffered for you." And I'm grateful she had me. But it's not my fault I was born...
Drinking this expensive sake is like paying myself back with poison for the way I lived all these years.