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0551 "Who are you truly?" - 04
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0552 "Masao! Teach me! You know about it, don't you?"
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0553 "What? Is it true? Is it me?" - 06
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0554 "Is this me?" - 07
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0555 "I can't believe! " - 08
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0556 "Is that so? Am I a bird? Was I not a human being?
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0557 "But I am glad that I could understand it." - 10
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0558 "I am a bird. Masao is a human being. But we are the same living things. Don't you think so, Masao? - 11
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0559 "Once you said to me like this, didn't you?" - 12
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0560 "We are always together. Even if one of us leaves this world early, we will always be together. We continue living always together under God." - 13
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0561 "I'm very glad to know your mind. We are always together, aren't we?" - 14
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0562 To tell the truth, it is just recently that I could know Chie is a girl. - 01
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0563 Of course, I was guessing that Chie might be a girl, judging from her features, action and her character. - 02
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0564 I was a teacher until several years ago. - 03
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0565 In April and May every year, in the morning after a windstorm, my students found a baby sparrow which was fallen from the nest and was mortally wounded. - 04
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0566 They brought the sparrow to my place in order to save its life. - 05
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0567 Up to now, I have raised a lot of sparrows. - 06
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0568 And, I sent away to the sky the sparrows which had not been injured. - 07
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0569 Chie is the sparrow brought at the end of my teacher period. - 08
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0570 She had been injured to right eyes and wings. - 09
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0571 She is very different from other sparrows. - 10
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0572 In a word, she is a sparrow who is at the same level as a human being. - 11
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0573 The relation of us is not the relation between an owner and a pet. - 12
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0574 We are entirely the same. - 13
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0575 I think that she is at least so convinced. - 14
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0576 She seems not to think that she is a bird. - 15
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0577 I think that it is natural. - 16
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0578 Because she doesn't know the bird which we call "sparrow". - 17
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0579 She seems to think that she is the same living thing as me ("a human being" in other words). - 18
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0580 She comes from herself and speaks to me. - 19
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0581 When I speak to her, she hears it. - 20
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0582 She clearly shows me "Pleasure", "Tenderness", "Sadness", "Anger", "Jealousy", and "Pain", etc. - 21
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0583 She has memorized the word "Hahi" that I am always using. - 22
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0584 "Hahi" is one of the common languages of us. - 23
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0585 The meaning of "Hahi" is "Yes" in English. - 24
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0586 However, she is using this word, including various feelings. - 25
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0587 One day, I was surprised to notice that I am naturally talking with her. - 26
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0588 I have never met the sparrow like her. - 27
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0589 I didn't think that I can meet a wonderful sparrow like her. - 28
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0590 To meet her, I was born in this world and have lived up to now. - 29
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0591 I sometimes think so. - 30
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0592 I am a very important existence for her. - 31
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0593 Similarly, she is a very important existence for me.
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0594 "When we are necessary, God gives what we need." - 33
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0595 I could understand that it is true. - 34
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0596 Because a bulbul is in the tree of the veranda, Chie is surprised and is just now telling it to me. - 35
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0597 "Bulbul" is "hiyodori" in Japanese. - 36
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0598 "The tree of the veranda" is "die Kastanie", a kind of chestnuts, an European tree. - 37
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0599 It becomes a large tree of about 20 meters in height. The beautiful flowers bloom in summer. But nobody can eat "die Kastanien". - 38
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0600 Several days later, the bulbuls begin to build a nest in the tree and to raise their babies in it. - 40
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