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Mika Hiroi ’24

Promise: /'präməs/ noun. An assurance like a knot knit tighter than my grandmother’s quilt, no tears, no rips. My grandmother says her son rests in peace. RIP, peace because our tears are golden to her because God promised she would see him again. The one she pushed into the world, her beloved

Human: /'(h)yoomən/ adjective. Susceptible to the backbreaking waters of the world, to the jagged edges of a stone ventricle, to the blackened illness that dragged him under, to mistakes, to

Loss: /lôs,läs/ noun. A promise that all which has been broken will mend in time, all that has been lost will be found, and we will get to see him again. This is a

Human Promise: /'(h)yoomən 'präməs/ Meant to be broken.