The Cafe Regular's Promise
A narrator encounters a familiar cafe regular who claims they made a promise years ago, but the narrator has no memory of her.
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At first, I thought she was mentally ill—she was even dressed in hospital clothes.
But when she pulled a photograph from her pants pocket, I was left speechless; it was my graduation photo.
Only then did I look closely at her face, though I couldn't immediately remember who she was.
"We first met there, didn't we?"
It was only then that the face of Minji, a classmate I'd met briefly in middle school, came back to me.
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