At 43 years old, I now work as a corporate advisor, leading a busy life as a lawyer. However, my current existence would not have been possible without the devoted support of my mother. The story goes back over twenty years ago, to the first year of the Heisei era. Growing up in a financially struggling single-parent household, I discovered during adolescence that my mother had been selling her body to pay for my tuition. Even now, I never forget from the bottom of my heart how, despite feeling deep humiliation, she desperately sacrificed herself for my sake.