Tramps Like Us 13 is the penultimate volume in this series, and it truly shows. Much of the focus is on Sumire's changing relationship with Takeshi. We get to see the way they adjust to love as equals and the extreme distance between them and, ultimately, the choices they make to stay together. These are reflected throughout the volume by the actions of the secondary characters, not the least of which is the Hasumi/Fukushima pairing. All in all, it was beautifully handled and I'm very much looking forward to the denouement in Volume 14. ( )