I lost my husband when my son, Gaku, was still young, and since then, we have been living together as mother and child. Gaku is now approaching his 20s and is increasingly resembling his father. As a mother, I feel joy in his growth, but as a woman, I also feel a sense of longing for that resemblance… Then on the night he turned 20. We shared our first drink together. Although I'm not much of a drinker, that day the alcohol tasted particularly good, and I ended up drinking too much. And Gaku, perhaps drunk, started to be unusually affectionate towards me…
