読む editorial by Dennis Sun Today, I woke up at 4:00am. I thought I was just going to the toilet to relieve myself quickly so I could go back to sleep, but nature had other plans. When I looked outside the veranda and saw the beautiful breaking of dawn and a stunning sunrise (see the photo I took), I decided to go out and do my early morning walk for an hour around my neighborhood, and then proceeded to the gym for another hour of workout. I went back home and took a cold shower. While checking my email, I laid down in bed and rested in my bedroom.
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Suddenly, my ears picked up some strange noises. My morning walk took me past a cemetery earlier, and I even saw a black cat passed by, so perhaps some sociable spirits must have followed me. My next thought was that the noise was coming from either upstairs or downstairs. However, as the sound grew louder, it became more disturbing. The sound came from inside the house. I opened the
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door and I saw a strange figure of a man moving right inside the living room, messing with my already disorderly things on the shelves. I
have felt, heard, smelled and seen ghosts before, but never have I seen one so real and alive as this. It was not a ghost I see, but a real human being right inside the living room. Now I wonder which is scarier: a ghost or a real human being you don't know inside your house? I realized then it must be a burglar? Here in Japan? In my
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