Jew - Night without a sky

Teasing and laughing

I didn't know who the letter was from just by looking at the handwriting on the envelope. I was so distracted that I didn't even notice that I had seen the slightly crooked, uneven handwriting.

However, I probably didn't know because the handwriting on the envelope was more than usual and it was written with a red pen that didn't hold very well.

When I opened the envelope and read the paper inside, I knew.

"Jew...

Do you recognize my handwriting?

You can hear about me.

I got married..

I have a daughter...

I haven't seen my daughter yet.

I swear I remember it often.

"It won't even come to my city."

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I had a very close friend in college. She was a Pollyanna-like girl who always had something funny to say and always saw the world in a positive light. I was her favorite person in college, and I guess I was her favorite person in college as well.

My classmates and roommates always saw us together. When they talked about me, they often mentioned him, and when they talked about him, they often mentioned me.

``He's cool. He's good-natured. He's so good- natured that he's often thought of as a little bit of a jerk. I always find myself judging him for everything he does, so I didn't know I was a "fighter" in college. .

We were two friends who had been together for four years, but our preferences and desires were always different. He was the one who looked for the good in people and was optimistic, while I was the one who looked for the bad and was critical. When it came to movies, he liked comedies and science fiction, while I liked dramas. We easily found the best solution.

I watch the comedy she likes, and she watches the serious and calm movies I like without complaining. We are not the kind of girl friends who go to the movies together, eat together, and then come back to their room and pay off their debts with 35 cents for the bus fare, 50 cents for the sun, 25 cents for the ice water, etc., and we are not the kind of people who pay their debts meticulously and accurately, like our female friends.

If he says, "Mother, let's go see a movie," he doesn't have to spend a single penny. I already have enough money for two people, food, drinks, and a movie ticket.

"Hey, let's go see a movie," he said, "and I don't have to look at how much money I have in my purse. And when we get back, I don't have to settle the bill."

If I wanted to watch a movie but I was short of money, I would ask him to show me the movie. If he wanted to watch a movie but was short of money, he would show me the movie.

Regarding money, he owned everything I sent home, and I owned everything his house sent home. So far, he had spent more money than me, and I had spent more money than him. We both knew that we had not calculated the profit and loss at all. Sometimes, when we both had no money to send home and were short of money, we would take out all the old notebooks we had, collect them, and go to the old paper shop in the alley in front of the dormitory to sell them. We would take whatever money we got, so it wouldn't matter how much paper you got, so we would have no problem getting it. We would drink tea together and eat noodles together as money that belonged to both of us.

"I'll save eight kyats for the movie tomorrow," he said, adding it to his account.

Our college days were free and happy days, except for the time when we had to memorize so many complicated texts. - I, who didn't even know how to ride a bike, would sit on the back seat of my bike and pedal around the city without complaining. It never occurred to him that I would ride on top of him.

On a cold December morning, he was the only one who wanted to wake me up, telling me to go and have some goat soup. | I, who had never eaten goat meat, would do as he asked (and with a little bit of envy), apply a fresh face and Thanaka to my face, and sit quietly and coolly behind his bike. When I arrived at the soup shop in the middle of the snow, I could only wash my ribs with hot water, and I sat there patiently while he cooked me some soup and drank some ribs.

On my birthday, his birthday, and my boyfriend's birthday, we both had the habit of going to the temple and praying. (My boyfriend was always far away.)

Every time I went to the pagoda, she would send me on her bicycle to buy roses from a rose garden on one side of the city. Then, she would pedal me to the pagoda on the other side of the city, filling me with energy and enthusiasm.

"Mi-joo... you're so imaginative," he said, laughing hysterically every time I celebrated my boyfriend's birthday without him. He is an invaluable friend to me.

"Mawa... let's go eat sticky rice."

"I don't crave the sticky rice near the school, but only the sticky rice from a place about two miles away," she said.

He doesn't complain that it's too far away.

"Come on"

He is a person who prepares and delivers bicycles.

When he wanted to drink tea from a tea shop near the school, which was full of bitter herbs, I would leave my work behind and follow him. Sometimes, he would suggest, “Let’s go for a bike ride in the rain,” and I, who was afraid of the cold, would follow his lead with alacrity.

"Mother, I'm not going to school anymore."

If I were to write a love letter to my girlfriend in my room, he would just keep whining and whining. Then he would just lie down next to me and be lazy.

"Ha... I can't, I can't, you have to go. If both of you miss school, who will sign the school roll call? Go... go to school." Only one person carefully signed my name.

Before I started dating him, he was a happy student who said, “If you go to school regularly, it won't be difficult.” But when he started dating me, he started skipping school every now and then.

My friends... "It was the Jews who destroyed the school." They honestly blamed me. I felt so hurt by those words. ' | They didn't tell me to drop out of school, they didn't stop me from studying, they didn't stop me from studying, and when I was accused, I was still very angry.

We studied together, watched the same movie together, and he didn't eat together, so I had a girlfriend, so I used to boldly shout that if I passed, he would pass, and if he failed, I would fail. Fate was on my side, and when he failed the exam and I passed, I automatically became selfish in the eyes of the public.

No matter what, no one could destroy the trust and friendship between me and him.

Throughout our college life, we had only one male friend, if you count slowly, and only one if you count quickly. That friend was in dire need of money, so both I and that friend had to go back to our hometowns and ask for money from their homes. When I gave all the money my family gave me to that friend, Win Myint Htun...