Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! Ill wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and its pitch dark, and I have absolutely no idea whats going to happen to me in the future, and I get so scared I want to scream. Does that happen to you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? When it happens, I try to remind myself that I am connected to othersother things and other people. I work as hard as I can to list their names in my head. On that list, of course, is you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. And the alley, and the well, and the persimmon tree, and that kind of thing. And the wigs that Ive made here with my own hands. And the little bits and pieces I remember about the boy. All these little things (though youre not just another one of those little things, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, but anyhow) help me to come back here little by little.
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