Baby pictures

[Hachiko]

She hung up the phone and looked out of the living-room window. The house was on a slight rise and she could see most of Fairview Estates -- the rows of wide, orderly streets, the big houses and neat lawns, children on bicycles, the mail truck making its rounds. It all looked too neat, too much like a movie set, like the opening of "Father Knows Best" or one of the other American TV series she had seen in Japan as a child.
She was just acting a part; none of this was real.

Japan Times