[She lets out an elated hum, brushing a hand over Elda's hair. ...The top of it, gosh Elda's got a lot of hair, between them they have like a whole other person of hair-]

I got to remember through to the beginning of July. I- I got to attend the Watanagashi- [there are two different ways to interpret that so let's avoid the one that means Disembowelment] aah, the Cotton Drifting Festival, the one in my honor, for the first time.

I've never known a summer so...so wonderful before.