51 books
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47 voters
Korean
405 books
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203 voters
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As a Korean, when meeting a Korean adoptee, I feel a negative charge. It feels like rubbing the wrong parts of two batteries together, a painful repelling that is supposed to be an attraction. Korean adoptees have told me time and time again that they feel abandoned and neglected. But what they do not know is that Koreans also feel a longing for them - the longing for the lost child, the lost sibling, like when people look at the Taegeuk and see the dividing line and ignore the fact that a circl
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― I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
― I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
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If I had wings, would you steal them?"
He glanced up. Her face was turned from him. She didn't stop but continued to walk along the fountain's rim. Spray dewed the top of her head, catching in her hair like stars.
He knew she meant her question as a jest, yet he gave it serious thought.
They'd completed one turn of the fountain before he answered.
"If you had wings," he said, with all the sincerity he possessed, "I'd want to see you fly.
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― The Floating World
― The Floating World
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