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mourning

On-Yomi: キ — Kun-Yomi: い.む、い.み、い.まわしい

Koohii stories:

1) [Nukemarine] 8-8-2007(269): Remember the tale of Cleopatra? She was MOURNING the loss of her Marc Antony, so she placed the asp SNAKE to her HEART.

2) [fuaburisu] 11-10-2005(148): You are mourning the death of a relative, and it feels as if a snake had bitten into your heart. – "mourning feels like snake-bitten heart".

3) [ihatobu] 9-12-2008(49): Mourning is really self-pity. When someone mourns, it seems on the surface that they are feeling sadness for a lost loved one. In reality, they are feeling heavy-hearted because they themselves have permanently lost something very precious.

4) [Yozora] 24-5-2009(38): Mourning can feel like a constrictor SNAKE is squeezing your HEART to death.

5) [Howdoken] 13-1-2008(20): When Snake finally killed Sniper Wolf, his heart was filled with mourning.

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