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"Say, Amara, do you have a boyfriend?" "No, I don't. I told you already." "Still, I think, if you had someone special," "Hm?" "What would they be like? It would be someone really talented, too, to be the friend of a racing driver like you. Would your friend play a team sport? Or be an artist, or something like that? Hm? Hm?" "What would you want to know about my friend?" "I suppose you think I'm being too curious, but I'd like to know, with the type of work you do, what kind of friends you have. Aren't you lonely sometimes when you realize that racing ins't everything in life?" "Do you mean, do I mind making sacrifices for my sport all the time?" "No! Well . . ." "Well, you're right. My sport is worth so much to me that I sometimes forget all about happiness. But it is as it should be, and my cousin and my other good friends take care of my social life. So you see, I'm not lonely without a boyfriend. I don't think about it at all. That's the way I am-- I'm into my racing so much that I sometimes forget everything else around me. That's my lifestyle, and the friends who love me understand, and like me for it. It's the real me." "But there are other important things, too." Mina and Amara [original dialogue: "Haruka, don't you have a boyfriend?" "No . . . didn't I tell you before?" "But you must at least have someone you like, right? What kind of man does a brilliant female motorbiker like? Perhaps, a man with special talent?" "What do you want to ask me?" "Don't you wish you could be an ordinary high school girl? Don't you ever feel lonely because ordinary happiness is far away?" "Are you sacrificing some ordinary happiness?" "Oh? No . . ." "Well, I don't understand what you mean by 'ordinary happiness,' but I don't think I am extraordinary. I think the way I am right now is most like the "real" me. Because I love motor-sports, I can't stop living as I am. Instead of ordinary happiness, I have something more important . . . How about that?" "Something more important . . ."] |
