What a feeling that man calls love. The word itself is short, two syllables ... and so much meaning and depth within them. Love, like anger or fear, always elicits unexpected reactions; obfuscation, sincerity, and clinging to what one loves. It is also the cause of the greatest stupidity impulses in history. And Hanako couldn't blame her daughter for it. Life always referred to issues like that and more if you are only seventeen years old. She listened attentively to Alexa, already a little calmer but without removing her sad expression from her face, now slightly flushed from the effort of holding back her crying. She patiently told him about the affair she had had with Luke, ever since her birthday when he dumped her at the restaurant. Also, the attention that she had with Santino, the

