My mother told me that the teaching 'keeping things secret allows them to blossom' comes from the oldest theory of Noh theater in Japan. Essentially, it is a warning against blabbering about everything to others. My mother gave birth to me when she was in her forties, still unmarried, and never revealed who my father was, before she suddenly passed away at the age of seventy. That year, I turned thirty.

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