``Ah, Kazuya-san, it's been a while! Is Rina here?...Eh? Are you at your parents' house now?--Then you won't be coming back for a while...'' While my wife Rina was returning home to her parents, a friend of hers... Reiko came to visit. In order to surprise her wife, she came all the way from Sendai for a surprise visit... ``I can't believe you're away...She wanted to talk slowly for the first time in a while,'' she sighs, at a loss.