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    If I Had...then: Birthday Present
    If I Had...then: Birthday Present
    If I Had...then: Birthday Present
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    If I Had...then: Birthday Present

    By Mari Yamaoka

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    A single never married woman, Mika Yamada, receives a present from her unknown future relative on her 40th birthday. The gift device enables her to go back to the turning point of her life in the past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 28, 2018
    ISBN9781543927436
    If I Had...then: Birthday Present

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      If I Had...then - Mari Yamaoka

      Mother-in-law

      Prologue

      Mika Yamada is a contract office worker. She is 39 years old with her 40th birthday coming soon. She lives in a small studio rental apartment in Tokyo and spends her days commuting back and forth to her office.

      She used to be a full-time employee. However, when the company she was working for restructured the business because of financial difficulties, she lost her job. After job-hunting, the position she found is her current contract clerical job.

      Most of her classmates are married and have children. Mika has never intended to remain single and has gone out to many dates. However, time went by and she remained single and now she’ll be 40 years old soon. She cannot believe it.

      How come my life turned out to be like this? she often wonders.

      If I had acted differently then, what kind of life would I have been living?

      Oh, maybe I would have been married and living an ordinary but happy life? she sighs. If I could go back to the past, I would re-do my life

      According to the 4-dimensional space-time theory, time is in a state in which multiple temporal spaces with different frequencies overlap four-dimensionally and they all co-exist simultaneously. In one spatio-temporal region, the space changes at a constant rate so that, in our eyes, things and people change with the time.

      If we could see the spatio-temporal regions from higher dimensions than three dimensions that we can perceive, every scene, from past to present and future, would exist simultaneously in 4 dimensions as space-time regions with different frequencies. What happened yesterday happened in a different space-time. What is happening today and what will happen tomorrow is happening in another space-time.

      In order to explain the theory with an easy-to-understand example, let us compare it to video or audio editing software on a computer monitor: the state that exists after placing sound data or video data on different tracks. There are multiple belt-shaped data at any given time line. For a more familiar daily life example, think of a TV channel guide. We can look at the broadcast content of different channels at a certain time or a specific hour of the day.

      The theory of relativity tells that all things and creatures that exist in the universe are composed of particles. They vibrate with their unique frequency. Light also has particles and waves, a kind of electromagnetic waves.

      According to the 4-dimensional space-time theory, it is considered possible that if a person puts herself in a powerful electromagnetic field, her body frequency may change. As a result, she may be able to time slip as if she could change the channel of the television.

      Chapter 1

      Awakening

      Brinng, Brinng, an alarm clock rings. Two minutes later it rings again, Brinng, Bring, Brinng.

      Mika Yamada finally wakes up in her bed and stretches her arms.

      I wish I could sleep a little longer!

      Her apartment is a typical compact Japanese studio apartment, 16.6 square meters or 178.7 square feet. The interior has girly décor with white furniture, pink curtains and a flower-patterned pink bed cover.

      She takes a shower, and then prepares her breakfast.

      She pours hot water into her instant coffee powder in a mug, adds diet sugar and cream. She heats a croissant in a toaster, and slices in the middle and puts it on a dish. She takes ham and lettuce from the fridge and inserts them between the cut pieces. Next, she cuts a grapefruit into halves and puts one in a bowl. Then, with a grapefruit

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