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I need to talk about a very sad accident that suddenly had happened to my home at first before I talk about
coming across Kurumi. Our dear Kamemi that was quite fine till then had died suddenly on July 13, 2010.
On the next day we bought Kamemi to the Buddhism temple that a veterinarian
introduced us to hold
a service of her.
I shook completely by this sad accident happened suddenly. I feel the way
to the temple was very long,
and it was very difficult for me even to walk and take the train. I arrived
at the temple with taking a rest
many times and I said good by to Kamemi there at last. But energy to return
to home had not remained
in me any longer at all after then. And I took a rest in the rest room of the temple for a while. But I was
almost mad meantime. I thought "I want someone to hear this sad feeling
in my mind. I might be able to
feel easy a little if it does so. I thought I tried to talk to one of priests
of the temple who sometimes
passes in front of me many times. But I didn't have such a courage as I talk to priest whom I didn't know
at all. Then, church came into my mind. Fortunately there was my familiar
Catholic church at the place
where I could arrive from this temple only by transferring subway once.
"Let's go to church at once and
hear me !"That idea made my feeling easy a little.
I went there and I asked to hear me in the office, and a father who came back first from lunch put me
in his room and heard me pleasantly. A talked him many things at a breath.
The turtle that has cherished
for long as our child has died suddenly, and my current feeling and painfulness,
and "I cannot do anything
for myself now, though I hope to slip out this painful state as soon as possible. I hope God help me.
How should I pray? "...and so on.
A father heard me silently without saying anything and said after then.
It was unexpected reply for me.
He said "The prayer is unnecessary in you today. Have someone pray if the prayer is necessary for you,
please. You have a more necessary thing that you need to do than prayer
now. Do you know what it is ?
It's to buy a turtle in the pet shop before you return home from here today.
Is it O.K ? "
An advice from father should be not to need to pray ! I thought what did
it mean. He said me to buy a turtle
though I wanted you to advise how should I pray. I brought Kamemi &
Kumosuke up because of special
meeting with them. So I thought it was impossible for us to keep turtles
other than Kamemi & Kumosuke,
moreover to buy turtles in the pet shop. I talked the father so. Then , he said, "Don't you think that meeting
in the shop has the same value as the meeting with your turtles? You might
miss something important
if you think so. This advice was "The scales fall off from one's eyes." for me.
The way of meeting with Kamemi & Kumosuke was certainly moving. But
only such impressive-looking
meetings aren't wonderful and special. It might have been only sticking to moving meeting that I thought
I didn't keep turtles other than them up to now. I came to think suddenly
that it's good for us to receive
a new turtle, as soon as having thought so I felt that I could come to have hope in the future and light
came into my pitch-dark mind only by having such an idea. My feeling became
light suddenly. Even I was
surprised at this feeling.
I consulted with my husband about how we should do in the future after
I returned home that day.
At first we I faced the choices of either we buy a baby turtle in the pet
shop or we received turtle that
its owner couldn't keep it any more and undecided. But we chose to get baby turtle in the shop after
considering. We weren't interested in turtle at all when we met with Kamemi
& Kumosuke and we didn't
have an accurate experience of raising baby turtle. So we thought it might be good for us to have
an experience breeding young turtle from the beginning now. In addition,
we hoped that a coming new
turtle would have its peculiar individuality like kamemi & Kumosuke. And we thought also for that it
would be better to keep it from its baby time.
It became light of only one hope for me who suffered from pet loss grief
to choice the way that buy
a successor of kamemi. But the shock that had lost kamemi was too great for me. I couldn't eat
anything and I couldn't sleep at all though I must have been tired at night.
I had been thinking only
about a coming new turtle while keeping faint during the night. I began
to feel anxious when I thought
about unfamiliar breeding of young turtle."It's still the end of July
now. We had better start breeding
it as soon as possible so that we may it strength even a little before winter if we keep a baby turtle.
So let's go buy turtle as soon as I get up in the morning !" I thought,
But in the other side we thought
"No, we can't bring a new turtle before Kamemi's remains comes back.
Jealous Kamemi must be sulky
if I do that.And I hesitated.
Next morning, I talked my husband about things that I had been thinking
during last night and
consulted with him about them. Then, he said that I had better go and buy turtle from now, today.
So I could come to think" It must make Kamemi happy that I advance
ahead while looking into the future
without feeling sad by attaching too much importance to the past.", and the hesitation in my mind
also disappeared. And I decided to go and buy turtle soon.
But I didn't know where I go when I actually tried to go out. At first
I looked for the area where there
seem be the shops that sell turtles through internet. As a result, Kameido,
the town connected with turtle
caught my eye. There seemed to be several pat shops there, And there is also Kameido shrine with pond
where many turtles lives in there. So I may be able to have a chance to
see turtles that go out of the pond
of shrine and walk around in addition to meeting in the shops. I headed
for Kameido immediately and
I came round some pet shops. there I could fine turtles at the first shop.
But there weren't any aquatic
animals at the second shop. And to the third shop. They put turtles at
the place where direct ray of
the sun strikes there unlike the first shop. It became a conclusive factor
for getting our new turtle
in this shop.
The time when I chose a successor of Kamemi came at last. We hoped to chose
a female turtle as much as
possible with preparing that it would lay eggs in the future because we try to get it as a successor of
Kamemi. In addition, I thought it was better that its face also looked
like Kamemi's one.
Every turtles in the container seemed to be energetic. There was a turtle
attracted especially in them.
It seemed to be mischievous. It was very charming. But it looked a boy because of the position of the
hole on its tail and shape of its plastron when I picked up it and turned
it.
I charmed by it because I wanted to actually raise also a male red-eared
slider. But I hoped to chose
a turtle that seemed to be a Child who seems to be female as much as possible
because I went there
to find a successor of Kamemi this time. Then a lot of turtles have come
out with surprise when I took of
a stone. One of them caught my eye next. It was the most energetic of them and running in the container.
Its shell was beautiful and looked cute. Its nose was round and its eyes
was blackish. It seemed to look
like Kamemi. And the hole on its tail was in more closer position to the shell than one of turtle that
I saw previously. I decided to chose this turtle. And I asked a clerk to
give me this turtle.
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It was the first experience for me to buy turtle in the pet shop though I have been keeping turtles for as much as
17 years. I signed a contract after I checked the items in the check sheet
about whether any abnormality found
in the turtle that I chose with a stuff in the shop.
There is an item that its birthday is written in the contract.
And it is written, "The beginning of June, 2010."
It's glad for me that time when she was born is clear unlike Kamemi & Kumosuke's
cases like this though the accurate birthday isn't clear.
A baby of red-eared slider, Kurumi came to our home on July 15, 2010.
It's a photo that I weigh her with a container put in shop as soon as
I returned home from the shop
At that time, the length of her shell was 3.5 cm, her weight was 12 g.
It was only 1/200 of Kamemi's weight. |
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Kurumi made me forget feeling of emptiness, loneliness and sadness after
kamemi was lost and saved me from
painful as felt that it is not possible to recover permanently at the speed
of unbelievable.
I hope Kurumi fulfills her great mission with succeeding the dying wishes
of kamemi from now.
She will make new history also in this website instead of Kamami. Watch
her growth and assist her for long, please !
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The story we came across Kurumi
