Hearing the results of the scan, my girlfriend Lisa and my mother could not keep from crying; they sat in the lobby with tears running from their eyes. ... I was brought low, and there was nothing to take refuge in but the philosophical: this disease would force me to ask more of myself as a person than I ever had before, and to seek out a different ethic.
――一橋大学 前期日程(2月26日実施)――2006年