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Kelu's book is very touching

Dozens of black and white ** that tracked Kelu's 12-year journey with people, and the eloquent words told it all over his life.

In a world full of indifference and alienation, Kelu evokes the deepest and most tender feelings in people's hearts, which makes people can't help but be quietly moved ......

This is a photo album full of memories. The text in the book is very plain, there are no particularly touching sentences, and there is no use of exaggerated rhetoric. But it slowly tells us the life of a guide dog.

The calm tone brought us closer to Koru, and made us begin to like this simple life that we had never known.

In the book, dozens of black and white ** taken by Mr. Akimoto for 12 years of tracking will make you understand and love Koru a little more. When I was a child, Koru was lively and cute, and sometimes you can't help but think: Ah, he actually made such a cute expression!

Kelu, who became a guide dog, showed us his intelligent and loyal side. During the days when Mr. Watanabe was hospitalized, he stayed quietly under the hospital bed. I don't know what he was thinking at the time.

After Mr. Watanabe's death, Koru became a model dog. Participate in guide dog advocacy efforts among schools. "It's amazing, it's amazing!

Despite all the compliments, I think Koru is alone. He was supposed to stay by Mr. Watanabe's side and continue to guide him ......In his later years, Koru returned to the home of his adoptive parents, where he had lived for eight months. Although the goodbye after 10 years was too long, time did not dilute Koru's memories of being there.

Ren Jing couple, childhood playmates, favorite walks on the side of the roadside Sun line ......He remembered it all clearly. However, at this time, Kelu, who was in the same environment, was no longer as lively and cute as before, and he may have worked too hard......

On Kolu's 11th birthday, he was retired. Since then, he has ceased to be a guide dog. Koru went from being an ordinary Labrador to a guide dog, and at the end of his life, he regained his rightful identity.

In April 1998, Kelu's health deteriorated rapidly and he was told that he might have cancer. Maybe Lu didn't know what cancer meant, but he should be well aware of the imminent death he was feeling unwell.

On July 20, 1998, at the age of 12 years and 5 days, Kelu passed away quietly with the blessing of his adoptive parents and good friend Van der Sai.

Goodbye, Xiaoke.

Goodbye, Koru! ”

When I read this book, I cried many times. But crying is not a bad thing.

Every dog, every living being, is a chain that will bring what to write for the living people around him. Similarly, his disappearance will also carry people's deep sentimentality and reluctance.

Newborn puppies, each covered in wet amniotic fluid.

Mrs. Mito greeted every little life with her own hands.

I saw that there seemed to be a small figure moving in the cage, as if Qiao Na was turning her body towards herself.

The outside world is wonderful Farewell to Mr. Isamu Nikai and Mrs. Mitsuko again, and the last walk with Koru was longer than usual.

They went farther and slower than usual.

In order to wait for Mr. Watanabe to continue working as a guide dog as soon as he was discharged from the hospital, Koru had to stay at the training center.

This wait is three years.

Xiao Ke, thank you, you don't need to work so hard. ”

Mrs. Nishii said to Koru in a very calm tone.

Mr. Watanabe stared into Koru's eyes, and after saying that, helped him put on the guide saddle.

Koru clung to Mr. Watanabe's side, ready to lead, still the same as before.

In the three years that Mr. Watanabe has been around, it has been waiting for this moment wholeheartedly.

They slowly took the first step. Two long-lost figures slowly extended into the distance.

But the three-year-long hope of teaming up again came to an end after only a short 30 meters.

Well, that's enough! "Mr. Watanabe said contentedly, and then took off the guide saddle from Koru with his own hands.

Goodbye, Koru is a book published by Nankai Publishing Company in 2003, written by Japanese writer Kengo Ishiguro.

Background: The Keru in the book is real. A smart, working dog all his life, who has been in the world for 12 years. His life as a social service dog was filmed by photographer Ryohei Akimoto, and from birth to death, Mr. Akimoto used his lens to track Koru's life, which eventually became "Goodbye, Koru".

It is said that it took the author 15 years to complete the biography of the puppy.

Kelu introduction: The most valuable thing about Kelu is that it has a particularly sincere character, frank, casual, leisurely, safe, loyal, with a lifetime of astuteness to help people, emotional intensity, but very restrained, patient, low-key. Keru is like the one that people want to meet all the time in their lives"Good guys"

Goodbye, Koru was written by Kenyu Ishiguro in Japan.

Kengo Ishiguro was born in 1961 in Kanazawa, Japan. Worked as a magazine. He is the author of "Japanese Diagrammatic Structure That Doesn't Appear in Exam Questions", etc., and has been responsible for the planning and planning of books such as "The Last Period of Gambling Life" and "Marriage".

Ryohei Akimoto was born in 1955. Graduated from the Department of Animal Husbandry, Tokyo University of Agriculture. He used to be a special photojournalist for the newspaper and is now a freelance photographer. His published works include "Kelu Who Became a Guide Dog", "The Old Man and the Dog", "Guide Dog Kelu" and so on.

You can take a look at the movie "Guide Dog Little Q", which is about turning the book into a movie, and the plot is exactly the same as in the book.