Seta Ichika - I Don-t Have A Mother Anymore- So... «Ad-Free»

She hasn’t cried in three weeks. That, she thinks, is the strangest part. The crying stopped, but the absence didn’t fill in. It hollowed out.

Optional Coda (if this were a musical or animated short): Seta Ichika - I Don-t Have A Mother Anymore- So...

She looks around the room. Her mother’s shawl is still draped over the back of the chair by the window. A small ceramic fox—a souvenir from a trip to Inari Shrine when Ichika was seven—sits on the windowsill. Her mother had bought matching ones. Ichika’s fox has a tiny chip on its ear. She hasn’t cried in three weeks

“You’ll miss my cooking one day,” her mother would say, half-joking. ” her mother would say