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How do I explain to her that the home I miss isn’t a place? It’s a time when my life made sense. When things made sense.
Fetishization is a form of oppression. I’m not an oppressor. I’m an ally! My feelings for you—no, my love for you—goes way beyond race.
Pls stop I can't
“I know that the plant is pretty, but poison is everywhere, even in the places where you least expect it.”
I fall silent at this revelation. I know what my mother is feeling right now, at least a little bit. To be the person who is always alone, always rejected. I have never been anybody’s first choice. Not my mother’s, who loves Ji-hyun more than me; not my father’s, who chose another woman over me. Over all of us.
Plus,” he says, puffing out his chest. “You owe me, Ji-won. I saved you from that guy.”
Umma allowed the men in her life to control her, to tell her what to do, to make all the big decisions for her. Without them, she’s lost, adrift at sea.
