She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her

As Sadako grew weaker, she thought more about death

Sadako gave a weak nod

It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make

One day in October, when Sadako awoke, she found her mother crying

Sadako looked at the golden paper crane that her best friend Chizuko had made for her