Only Sumiko herself understood that behind this separation lay thirty years of silence and compromise. She came from an extremely ordinary family, the kind of woman most common in East Asian society--taught from a young age to be gentle, giving, and patient, her life's value tightly bound to the roles of wife and mother. Her world was once very small, so small that it consisted only of her husband's indifference, her mother's strictures, and the scrutinizing gaze of the outside world. She had almost forgotten who she was, her voice long lost in the daily trivial and silence.
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