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Section 1: Chapter I, "Best Friends" Pages 5-26

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Kawaguchi, Toshikazu. Tales from the Café. Translated by Geoffrey Trousselot. Hanover Square Press, 2021. Ebook.

• All four of the stories in this anthology take place in the same setting, a Tokyo café; the stories are presented in chronological order and take place over about a year's time.

• Chapter I is titled "Best Friends," and it functions as a complete short story.

• The third-person narrative opens with Gohtaro Chiba pacing in front of a central Tokyo café, Funiculi Funicula, that he has heard allows its patrons to travel through time.

• Gohtaro is thinking about a lie he has maintained to his daughter for 22 years.

• He is plagued by regret, and reflects that he never really meant to lie in the first place.

• Gohtaro goes down the stairs to the basement-level...

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