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Survival Story

“He’s alive,” she said, letting out tears. “Violet?”
He wakes up. Gilbert opens his eyes and the first “Yes, Major?”
thing he sees are Violet ’s blue ocean-like eyes. “Did you hear me say ‘I love you’ before I left for
“Violet? Is that really-” Gilbert then remembers the plane? Did you understand what it meant?”
everything. The woman who he had been vision- “I heard you say it. I didn’t know what it meant.
ing and remembering all this time was Violet. He But I did everything I could and learned what it
then remembers the cause of his plane crash. It was. And there’s just one thing I want to tell you.
was a hijack. A plane hijack. I love you too.”

He squints his eyes to remember the people in- And that’s the end. Gilbert and Violet get mar-
volved in it and then he utters the word “Bou- ried, well by themselves in the same forest the
gainvillea, Dietfried Bougainvillea”. plane crashed in. They had a small family and a
“What? What’s wrong?” Violet says. bigger cabin. And Iris and Gilbert always spent
“ Violet, I remember. I remember everything. It time together until the very end. Iris passes away
was him. It was Dietfried who hijacked the plane. due to some incurable disease. Gilbert, Violet,
He wanted me to die. He wanted to take over and and their 2 daughters and their little newborn
get all of the family shares. ” baby boy mourn Iris’s death. The little family
Violet stays silent and rushes towards Gilbert continues to live in Aokigahara Forest, challeng-
and hugs him crying. She hugs him tight to her ing themselves to live in the wild. Their kids
arms and doesn’t let go for a long time. grow up to be strong and brave individuals just
“Are you trying to choke me?” Gilbert says like their parents. They built a statue of Gilbert
chuckling slightly. and Violet right after their death. Today the stat-
Violet quickly releases him, noticing his face was ue is famous all over Japan and those two have
all red. become an inspiration to millions and billions of
Both of them sat next to each other having a lit- people for being the only two who survived the
tle chat. Aokigahara Forest.

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