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Hajime - "Beginning" in Japanese - was an atypical only child
growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamoto, herself an
only child, was cool and self-possessed, precocious in the extreme. After
school these childhood sweethearts would listen to records, hold hands,
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Then, despite themselves, in the way peculiar to adolescents, they grew
apart, seemingly for good. Now, facing middle age, finally content after
years of aimlessness, Hajime is a successful nightclub owner, a husband
and father, when he suddenly is reunited with Shimamoto, propelled into
the mysteries of her life, and confronted by dark secrets she is loath to
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And so, reckless with enchantment and lust, Hajime prepares to risk everything
in order to consummate his first love, and to experience a life he's dreamed
of but never had a chance to realize. |
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