# Before the Coffee Gets Cold ## By Toshikazu Kawaguchi Nestled within Tokyo's quiet backstreets sits an unassuming café, perfecting its craft for over a century. Yet this establishment harbors an extraordinary secret: patrons can step backward through time itself. Four individuals arrive seeking solace in this impossibility. One yearns to confront an absent lover. Another hopes to receive written words from a spouse slipping away to dementia. A third wishes to embrace her sister once more. The fourth dreams of meeting the daughter fate never allowed her to know. This temporal escape carries profound conditions. Visitors must occupy a designated chair, remain within the café's walls, and most crucially, return to the present before their coffee cools. The clock becomes both guardian and captor. Kawaguchi's luminous narrative invites us into a haunting meditation on time's passage and human longing. It asks not merely what we would alter in our pasts, but whom we would desperately seek out again—those irreplaceable souls we'd move heaven and earth to see one final time. Discover the transformative power of second chances. Add this poignant masterpiece to your collection today.
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