She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society’s expectations and causing her family to worry about her. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. So when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her.įor her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers’ style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world.
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