B.R.T. 18.17 - Epilogue-Tsugaru. Posted 3/5/2013

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With those words, my comrade stopped,
and as the fire cracked and snapped,
I thought about the story which had seemed to end.
He was quiet, staring into the fire, but I was impatient.

"Go on, old man," I said.  I was like that back then.
"It couldn't have ended there...surely there must be more."

"Yes," he said.  He picked up a stick and stirred the fire.
Sparks flew upward as the stick was consumed.

"Yes...there was more."

The storyteller began again.

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