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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: The letter was burned. It was a love-letter written to O-Sono in the time
of her studies at Kyoto. But the priest alone knew what was in it; and the
secret died with him.
YUKI-ONNA
In a village of Musashi Province (1), there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku
and Minokichi. At the time of which I am speaking, Mosaku was an old man;
and Minokichi, his apprentice, was a lad of eighteen years. Every day they
went together to a forest situated about five miles from their village. On
the way to that forest there is a wide river to cross; and there is a
ferry-boat. Several times a bridge was built where the ferry is; but the
bridge was each time carried away by a flood. No common bridge can resist
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