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Saturday, July 13, 2002

Watched the screening of Jun Ichikawa's Dying at the Hospital. In it, a 70+ year old man had to be admitted to a different hospital from his wife because both of them were stricken with different kinds of cancer (and the hospitals probably didn't specialise in treating both). Anyway, the old man was getting worse and it wouldn't be long before he lost the ability to walk; his wife was already bedridden. So the old man requested to visit his wife while he could still walk, and though it was hazardous, the doctor agreed.

At their short meeting, the old man was sitting so quietly by his wife's bedside, and he told her that in his life, that he could meet her, for that he's grateful. That was such a gut-wretching scene.

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