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To be fair, if she died of old age just before him, I would regard it as a normal ending. Life goes on, living long enough to be a wrinkled old man was actually a blessing in that period.
I read a theory saying it's sml not ml and it makes sense. Since both ml and fl don't have have anyone who would write a letter like that to them nor does it make sense if fl wrote it to ml.
Since sml could as well start dating that girl this letter might as well be from her to sml but it still doesn't make sense.
And ya u r totally right but being left alone to live only with the memories of the dead is so heart wrenching. U can't help but miss that person every single min in ur life.
A very old letter" Women are property and are exchanged like objects as gifts,
Don't get married " Read by a old man, crying, wearing a simple kimono by the lake ml had shown to fl with fireflies as if read as many times they could have read it, tattered in a envelope.
He says to himself " And yet I did it myself, I fell in love with someone I shouldn't have" Lonely and alone