Henry Miller had many wives. There was one wife named Hoki. She was Japanese. Hoki and Miller met in a Japanese bar where she used to sing. After meeting a few times, Miller asked her hand in marriage, and she said yes. She was not yet twenty, and he was over fifty!
After Miller's death, the other wives inherited all his wealth. Hoki was the forgotten Japanese divorced wife. She spent the remaining years of her life in her dark little room on top of a second rate bar on a noisy street. But she kept Miller's memories- a few of their photos, a few signed watercolours of Miller (Miller used to paint), and an autographed book. And of course, plenty of invisible memories of a good time.
When Paulo Coelho visited her once, she told him that she did not inherit the rights to his books or his property, and none of those' mattered, because the experience of being together with him outweighed any monetary compensation'. 'There was no point in squabbling over inheritance: love was enough,' Hoki said.
Yes. When there is love, nothing else matters!
[Quotes taken from Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins Publishers, London, 2018]
After Miller's death, the other wives inherited all his wealth. Hoki was the forgotten Japanese divorced wife. She spent the remaining years of her life in her dark little room on top of a second rate bar on a noisy street. But she kept Miller's memories- a few of their photos, a few signed watercolours of Miller (Miller used to paint), and an autographed book. And of course, plenty of invisible memories of a good time.
When Paulo Coelho visited her once, she told him that she did not inherit the rights to his books or his property, and none of those' mattered, because the experience of being together with him outweighed any monetary compensation'. 'There was no point in squabbling over inheritance: love was enough,' Hoki said.
Yes. When there is love, nothing else matters!
[Quotes taken from Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins Publishers, London, 2018]
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