( From the boat heโs on, Hiroaki is little more than a figure on the shoreline. Stillโฆ most people donโt wave to him, so heโll exchange a grin and a wave back. )
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( Itโs winter stillโ- but the ice hardly bothers him. Here by the river, nobody even wanders anymore.. save for a fisherman, or two. )