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Tohuko

Tohoku When the tsunami struck in Japan five years it hit and killed so many that nature had no time to erase the dead completely A man who lived in the stricken town of Tohoku when out looking for his daughter or her toys anything to remind him of her met the dead who were shadows in the night and they spoke to her his daughter was there to told her father not to cry for her, she said of the bewilderedness of being a shadow but wanting out as this half life was relentless as the shadows too wanted to find families and those who did realise to their horror there was not a channel of communication. So many of them walked back into the cold sea and sought a total death no memories and no longer a shadow be. There are fewer of the shadows now soon there will be none, and the undead will find peace and the ripples of Nirvana are forever soundless

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