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Kindle: to set fire to or ignite, to begin to burn.
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Masako remembered the first kindling of love igniting in her stomach. She just happened to wish nearly every day that the ever growing fire was for someone else.
She wanted someone to look at her with the same emotion that she held for him. But he always looked at her in scorn because of the rope that she had tied so tightly around his neck.
She wanted him to love her. But all he could do was hate her.
All the while, the kindle of fire refused to turn into an ember and die.
And she hated herself for it.