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or at least remember you on Valentine's Day

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The Gate, Natsume Soseki wood practicality make her the mostAn NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families consent, and unable to have children of their own, Ssuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Ssukes brash younger brother. While an