The headaches that had been troubling me for so long have finally eased to the point where only a faint remnant remains. After taking acetaminophen, 300 mg x 1, I lay down in the empty house. The spring rain that had been falling lightly when I went to sleep had, before I knew it, become a heavy rain beating fiercely against the windows. With rain like this, even the cherry blossoms that had just reached full bloom will probably scatter.

The sound of rain scattering blossoms, fierce on a spring evening

I did not go flower viewing this year.

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