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"A tailor's widow, [who] was watching a neighbor from her kitchen window..."
"Mrs. Nakamura has three young children, a boy and two girls, and her husband died 'an honorable death' in the war. She struggles to make ends meet both before and after the atomic attack by using her husband’s sewing machine to get tailoring work, which she drops in an emergency water tank, though later recieves a new one. She suffers mild radiation sickness for most of her life, which makes it very difficult for her to support her children. During the course of the next four years she worked many jobs ranging from a money collector for the city newspaper, to a mothball packager. Eventually she retired and became an active citizen whose children have grown and found happiness."
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