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Well, a few days ago, we were as*igned short stories for a book report. My teacher told me that the short story as*igned to me is The Moon On The Water. I searched for it in the web, but there were no copies T-T. That's when my teacher gave me his original copy. I retyped it all so that all of you can have a copy too. So, I hope I helped you all!  It occurred to Kyoko one day to let her husband in bed upstairs, see her vegetable garden by reflecting it in her hand mirror. To one who had been so long confined, this opened a new life. The hand mirror was part of a set in Kyoko’s trousseau. The mirror stand was not very big. It was made of mulberry wood, as was the frame of the mirror itself. It was the hand mirror that still reminded her of the bashfulness of her early married years when, as she was looking into it at the reflection of her back hair in the stand mirror, her sleeve would slip and expose her elbow.             When she came from the bath, her husband seemed to enjoy reflecting the nape of her neck from all angles in the hand mirror. Taking the mirror from her, he would say: “How clumsy you are! Here, let me hold it.” Maybe he found something new in the mirror. It was not that Kyoko was clumsy, but that she became nervous at being looked at from behind.             Not enough time had pas*ed for the color of the mulberry wood frame to change. It lay in a drawer. War came, followed by flight from the city and her husband’s becoming seriously ill; by the time it first occurred to Kyoko to have her husband see the garden through the mirror, its surface had become cloudy and the rim had been smeared with face powder and dirt. Since it still reflected well enough, Kyoko did not worry about this cloudiness-indeed she scarcely noticed it. Her husband, however, would not let the mirror go from his bedside and polished it and its frame in his idleness with the peculiar nervousness of an invalid. Kyoko sometimes imagined that tu*ercu*osis germs had found their way into