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"They are choosing you, not the other way around," the breeder, an elderly woman named Sato, said softly.
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The low hum of the Tokyo-bound train mirrored the nervous vibration in Kenji’s chest as he clutched a printed directions page to an old farmhouse in Odate. "They are choosing you, not the other way
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