As I stared at the four remaining faces, I was struck with a strange thought.

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From my seat, which, as I stared at the bear swarm, I was increasingly hesitant to leave, I counted a dozen trolling the water.

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As I stared out over the landscape I listened to stories about the mysterious forests that grow in the vast shadow of Mount Fuji, and about how people disappear in them.

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So, as I flew through the air, I stared at the grassy yard and planned my clever descent.

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She stared at me as if I'd stolen her lunch.

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She neither smiled nor cried, but stared at me with a peculiar gentleness, as if I were a kind of nourishment.

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Yet as the smiling faces of girls in white dresses I hadn't seen since high school stared at me from my computer screen, I couldn't help but feel I was suddenly looking at the path I hadn't taken.

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We stopped alongside the Sonobe River, where Miyamoto, as a boy, had caught fish with his hands, and I descended the bank and stared at the riffles for a while until I realized, with a start, that there were six or seven giant carp in a pool right by my feet.

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