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2014-02-18 "Mother and daughter" and "Twins sisters" at the same time [長年日記]

When the editor in charge of mine offered me the title of my column,

"Reality of sperm provision services, problems of safety in human cloning, and the latest technologies"

honestly speaking, I thought that this was something new joke, but today I knew this was not joke.

This title seems to be transcendentalism like scientific paper (don't look like it.)

Does any college give me an academic title ? (never do it)

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This writing was very hard for a deadline.

I released the first draft at midnight on the 12th, and the next afternoon I got the mail that said "the publishing date is the 17th" on the 13th . I thought I looked pale.

I had no idea of illustration of the column.

I had judged soon that it was impossible to complete the picture by the deadline.

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I kept my head down and asked my senior daughter the followings.

"Please! Please read this column and make your illustration. I will prepare to pay twice as usual."

"Papa, You don't understand Arts at all. Payment is not problem. The most important thing is time to reach a inspiration"

Have a heart! Dear Master!! Please save this unworthy father with your talent!!"

"It cannot be helped. Let me think it a little."

I don't care at all that I fall on my knees to ask my daughter for my task.

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While taking a bath, she had made a few pencil sketches, and I was astonished at watching one of them.

"This is a concept of "twins sisters with difference of 20-40 years old" isn't this ?"

"Yes"

I sincerely admired her for a work.

"How could she subtract this beautiful concept from the my column?"

"Mother and daughter" and "Twins sisters" at the same time

"It might be good" -- This is a picture that I made me such feeling.

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I ordered her to complete this picture with paints or color pencils, not to use PC drawing software.

After that, both she and I tried to make digital re-masters operations, for example adjustment of color, deletion of soil, line offset, with a rush

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For the first time, I named her work

"Twins"