As some of you may have seen on my Twitter, I felt the pull to reread CTK‘s Midnight Rain and wanted to follow that with Harada‘s One Room Angel somehow. It was subconsciously done but in hindsight, my brain was onto something. So I wanted to hijack some of your spare time and attention span … Continue reading "MIDNIGHT RAIN & ONE ROOM ANGEL—IN PRAISE OF PATHETIC (FICTIONAL) MEN"
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