"Now that I think about it, I haven't eaten roasted sweet potatoes in many years... the last time I did so was during my freshman year in high school..."
"It was also during the winter. There was an old man selling roasted sweet potatoes at the entrance of our school every day. I heard that his wife was sick, so I relied on selling sweet potatoes to buy medicine for her husband. At that time, I thought that he was quite pitiful. Every night, he would buy a sweet potato for his self-study session, and then... After that..."