The Girl Who Doesn't Know Her Birthday
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Childhood abuse can last a lifetime. While physical wounds may heal, mental wounds are extremely difficult to repair. Abused children often fall into mental distress. Miyu often draws pictures of herself in a cage. She would put goldfish, newts and hamsters in bottles and boxes, with no memory of them afterwards. Masato always hides behind the curtains, ignores anyone, and is immersed in his own world. Takumi believes that the only relationship between people is "lose or win" and always wants to use violence to make other children surrender. Asuka longed to live with her birth mother even though she had suffered abuse. Because of her biological mother's irresponsible promise, she made things difficult for her adoptive mother just to "go home." Saori was abandoned by her biological parents and never received love from her stepmother or adoptive parents. When she became an adult, she was shocked to realize that she did not seem to know how to love her children... In the family-style care institution "Family House", children who were physically and mentally injured lived with agency operators who acted like adoptive parents and other children who had similar experiences to themselves, learning how to love and trust.
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