한국어

I Lent Him an Umbrella. I Never Intended to Get It Back.

A person lends an umbrella to someone they love, using it as a reason to see them again.

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Perhaps all I wanted was one more chance to see him under the pretense of lending it.

Yes, even without a word of thanks, that faint smile he showed warmed the chill of this rainy season.

Isn't that what love is, after all? Wanting to be entangled somehow, just throwing something and walking away.

How foolish I was. Love was an entity so perfectly skilled at making a person into a fool.

Still, for you, I will gladly become that fool.

5 sentences Translated from Korean
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