It was time to receive the memories, the family tradition 300 years in the making of Fujiwara household. So the 13-year-old and her mother went in their best kimonos to the well at the end of the river, and hour’s walk.

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  The girl dug her hands into the well and to the order of her mother drunk from its clear depths; It was refreshing and the girl drunk more until she was immersed in the dream:

  It was more like a collection of snapshots; An old European house, a girl sitting by a well, a bloody kimono. And it ended as her mother pulled her out. She then gave her water as her mouth was now dry.