"...People shouldn’t dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now. Reality is too cruel, too brutal..." - Aya Kitō Ikeuchi
1 Litre no Namida - 1 Liter of Tears (TV series)


As a parent, how would you react seeing your child suffering from such a pain? What will you do if you will find out that he/she can die anytime? How will you maintain the family amidst all that is happening?
The story of Aya Kitō and the life that she lead was sure to be an inspiration to everyone. Despite her disease she manage to be strong and smile everyday. She was such an inspiration that the movie, the tv series and the diary publication of her life was sold out.

Through family, medical examinations and rehabilitations, and finally succumbing to the disease, Aya must cope with the disease and live on with life until her death at the age of 25. She was born July 19, 1962 and died May 23, 1988.
Here is an excerpt from Aya's Diary:
“If I were a flower, then now I would be a bud.
I shall treasure the beginning of my youth without any regrets.
This disease, why did it choose me?
Fate. It can't be put into words.
I want to make a time machine and go back in time.
If it wasn't for this disease,
not only I could enjoy falling in love but I also
wouldn’t have to rely on anyone and live by myself.
I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back to how things were before.'
I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.
Therefore I definitely won't run away.
That's what I’ll do. Definitely, always.
Even if it's like that, I still want to stay here.
because this is the place where I am.
If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today
stretching limitlessly and smiles at me...I'm alive.
People shouldn’t dwell on the past. It's enough
to try your best in all that you're doing now.
Reality is too cruel, too brutal.
I don’t even have the right to dream.
As i think about the future, the tears will come out again."
“Mom, can I get married?”

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Quelle leçon !
Quelle leçon !