Souvenir Summary

A young girl is walking down the street when a man notices her and thinks she looks like his dead wife. He approaches the girl and tells her this. The girl has heard this many times before and she is kind. However, when the man follows her into the drug store she wishes he would leave. The girl wants to buy condoms for use with her boyfriend, a young man who came home from war damaged and is no longer eligible for a marriage license. The girl does not care about marriage and wants to give herself to the man she loves.

The girl moves from counter to counter hoping the man will grow bored and leave. The man asks her to have wonton soup with him and she guesses that had been his wife's favorite. The girl tries to extricate herself from...