Rewrite
He proposes to her three times in twenty years.
Three times, she refuses. Six years to reconcile; three more to strike up the bonds of a fragile friendship. But doubt, like bedrock, lives in her eyes. She travels – London, New York – on top of the world, while he stays at home and watches Okinawa gain its wealth and lose its soul.
Then she settles, and waits, and waits. But Daniel-san does not come.
He's Chozen, but not Chosen. He bears his cross, for there are things even he, reformer extraordinaire, cannot rewrite on the blotted and transient pages of life.