"But does it also have something to do with the notion of five-year-old girls being allowed to dine outdoors together on a bench between their two homes, no grownups lurking overhead?"
"“A . . . new . . . skater,” another said, equally loudly but also very slowly, moving his lips a lot like he was talking to a deaf five-year-old."
"That spring, a five-year-old girl was admitted to a hospital in Minamata, the largest city on Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan."