Graduation day.
One more time, she waits on the platform at Kyu-Shirataki. One more time, the morning train stops for her.
She rides it to her graduation ceremony. It is the last time she will catch a train from this station.
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A Japanese newspaper put it simply that day. The station's only passenger, its headline said, had made her last trip to school.
Three years of mornings ended there. The station had done what it was kept for.