During this period, the written word was his only means of communicating with them, and he sometimes found himself answering his daughter's questions-things like "Why does everyone ignore me?" and "Why are other people different from me?" -in long letters composed in the dead of the night.
有時為了回答櫻櫻的疑問──像是「為什麼大家都不理我」、「為什麼別人和我不同」等等，他只好熬夜寫長信給女兒。