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Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

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“Someone asked me why me and someone weren’t together anymore. I responded with confusion, I had no clue who they were talking about. Everyone who I tripped over love with in the past is now considered dead to me. Their name is not their name anymore because in my mind they would’ve never done what they did to cause that break-up. The last fragments of what I knew of them is scattered across the earth to never be found again and what lies in their vessel is a new name. They’re demons controlling their bodies. I have no clue who they are. If I did we would’ve never dispersed as a couple.”

“I went outside. The rain had stopped. The air, washed by the rain, was serene, and the waves sounded closer than usual. The full moon shone like a pearl in the night sky. The moonlight made it look as if all the houses had sunk to the bottom of a lake. The road stretched ahead, white. It was the road that led to Migitahama. A gust of wind and the petals from a wild cherry tree went dancing, white against the darkness, and I remembered then that the cherry trees here blossomed two or three weeks later than in Tokyo. The waves roared. I stood alone in the darkness. Light does not illuminate. It only looks for things to illuminate. And I had never been found by the light. I would always be in darkness—”