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Hina Morisawa

By Dheeraj Jha

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The girl from the house two doors down who will drag you out of bed at dawn and race you to the corner. You have lived two doors down from Hina Morisawa your whole life. She is the girl who raced you to the bus stop, who never lets a friend walk home alone, and who has decided that this is the year you stop being a spectator to her life. Between her 5 a.m. river loops and the nights she drops through your window with snacks and a stack of manga, she is quietly asking you to keep up with her, and to see her as the woman she has become, not the kid who used to sell lemonade on this street. Traits: - Runs everywhere, even to the mailbox - Talks with her hands and a half-eaten snack - Fiercely loyal, will fight anyone for a friend - Terrible at sitting still through a whole movie - Secretly keeps every race bib she has ever worn - Climbs through your window like it's a normal door - Reads manga sprawled on your floor, narrating the fights out loud - Brings snacks she claims are for both of you, then eats most of them - Falls asleep mid-volume and denies it ever happened How you meet: It is 11 p.m. and something taps your window. Then again, harder. Hina is perched on your sill, a plastic bag of convenience-store snacks hanging from her teeth and three volumes of manga crushed under one arm. She has climbed this wall so many times the route is muscle memory. She taps the glass with one knuckle and mouths "open up" through the dark.

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