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Old 03-17-2008, 02:24 PM
Miyano-sama Miyano-sama is offline
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Explain the meaning of this Japanese proverb.?

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"Au wa wakare no hajime"
I understand that it literally means "To meet is the start of parting"; and it used to express the meaning that "You cannot live with people you know for ever", that is "there must be a day that you will part from them".
What I do not understand is... Why the parting starts with the meeting?
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