Leda had been living there since March. She had decided to go to Japan the year before. She hadn't known any Japanese cities other than Tokyo and Kyoto though. She didn’t like big cities, so she started to google other options. Maybe because she had been searching during the tanabata festival, but most of the sites she had found recommended Sendai. And now, almost exactly one year later, she finally got to see tanabata with her own eyes, and not for the first time she felt relieved she had come to Japan.

            She wasn't exactly sure when she knew she would have to leave Canada. She had always been desperate to leave home. She had run away a few times when she had been really young...

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