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She blames herself for her parent's death. She thinks if she wasn't born, her parents wouldn't have died trying to save her. Thus, she thinks her birthday is bad.

Actually that's merely what Hisao assumes before he finds out the real reason. That real reason was mentioned on the previous page.

Or would she consider birthdays in general to be a waste of time?

I don't think she does. The matter seems to be strictly a personal thing and closely tied to her own experiences.

Every birthday was the same. Everyone doing their best to pretend that I mattered. Everyone pretending everything was alright… for one day of the year. I didn't want to exist, but they wouldn't let me. Imagine for one day of the year all those "others" pretending to be happy for you. The classmates...

Great to hear you enjoyed it. But what's a bowse?

Unless they dropped by without announcing it beforehand.

The problem is not ripping it off if you want to write Post Hanako good end fanfictions of your own. Just for the record...it's not ripping off if you ask and get permission, which the author did. I guess Yumi making her way to other fics is mostly because there weren't many fics that explored Hana...

Speaking of reactions to Hanako's scars, there's always the question of what will happen when she meets Hisao's parents. I plan to address that in a fan fic at some point. It's definitly got some intreguing possibilities. Though I would hope the following wouldn't happen... She already does just th...

Then it was a coincidence. It's what happens almost at the end.

Lilly asks Akira if she could convince their parents to let Hanako and Hisao come along to Scotland with her during summer break. Akira promises she'll do what she can.

Umm, actually no. I was a little afraid of dredging up all those emotions again. But after your comment, I decided I'd better get back to it. I just finished Chapter 8 and started on 9. The reason I asked was YZQ's comment was a reference to part of the story and you didn't seem to have caught that...

Heh, Hokkaido isn't the name of the town, but the name of the island it's on. Hokkaido's actually the second-largest island in Japan. I'm not sure if the town itself was named.

That is a brilliant idea sir!

Out of curiousity...did you complete the story?

When dose she say this? I have no memory of her saying how young she was when she had her accident.

She says it right after she strips naked and lets Hisao take a look at the scarring on her back.

I think there'll still be quite the culture shock after she graduates. Especially in a country like Japan where depression is regarded as a sign of weakness and obsession with conformity often reaches levels that would make westerners scratch their heads. I think Hanako is someone who can face her f...

It might take longer than that. CPL_Crud once mentioned Hanako probably wouldn't be completely self-reliant until she started approaching her thirties. Seeing that she's eighteen now, that's probably quite a few years of two-steps-forward/one-step-back for her.

If this was already asked, then direct me to the post, but why do Shizune and Lilly hate each other so much? I mean, their personalities can't be that different to constitute all the passive-aggressive fighting. I recall somewhere that Lilly and Shizune's fathers dislike each other but as revealed ...