Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think. And I probably infect others with the way I speak too. Izumi at her previous store came to help out, and she dressed so much like Mrs. Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. Izumi came, Sasaki started sounding just like her when she said, “Good job, see you tomorrow!” Once a woman who had gotten on well with Mrs. When some of Sugawara’s band members came into the store recently they all dressed and spoke just like her. My speech is especially infected by everyone around me and is currently a mix of that of Mrs. Izumi, 30 percent Sugawara, 20 percent the manager, and the rest absorbed from past colleagues such as Sasaki, who left six months ago, and Okasaki, who was our supervisor until a year ago. Her parents and sister love her dearly, and are thrilled when she gets a job at a convenience store, at the age of 18. I am currently made up of 30 percent Mrs. Convenience Store Woman is about Keiko Furukura, who has always been considered to be somewhat odd, in school and in college, not quite fitting in with the rest of the crowd. “My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.
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