There’s so much I could say about this girl, and yet, so much I can’t. More importantly, the date of her death went completely unnoticed by most blogs. I felt it was at least important to mention her.
Yanagihara Hiromi (柳原尋美), Country Musume first-gen, October 10, 1979—July 16th, 1999. The only tragedy Hello! Project has ever felt, and hopefully, the only one it will.
This post was made with regret that I had made this blog only the day after the anniversary of Hiromi’s untimely death. But if there’s anything that the passing of others has taught me, it is that although we initially feel the pain that accompanies loss, it fades over time, but though it fades, it is never truly forgotten. I spent a majority of July without thinking of Hiromi at all, until I was looking over the Country Musume article at Wiki thePPN and saw her name once more. I suddenly remembered the first time I was perusing H!P groups there and stumbled across her page. I felt I had some sort of duty to pay some kind of respect to her, even if I never met her, or heard her music. It’s the same way for me about my grandmother’s passing only a week before my birthday a few years ago. I can go an entire year without acknowledging that she is no longer in this world, but when the date of her death approaches, I remember.
I remember.
