決して(けっして)愛を(あいを)捨てる(すてる)ことなく、病院で(びょういんで)寄り添い(よりそい)看病(かんびょう)し続けた(つづけた)

Eventually, the inherently delicate Chieko fell ill with a mental sickness. Facing her mental collapse, where she even forgot her own name and Kotaro, Kotaro never abandoned his love, continuing to stay by her side and nurse her at the hospital. He wrote about even her illness in his poems as a beautiful, tragic form of love.