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my life. In a way, I will be glad when we are almost home and the scenery will turn into rice fields and farm plots, and I will be reminded of how far I have come, instead of what I cannot reach.
“No matter how dark things get for me, the memory that I saved a life—that my life has mattered—has been something I can cling to,” he says with a catch in his voice. “It is, perhaps, the only lifeline that I possess. And I am so grateful that I can tell you this. What your life means to your parents—you will realize it one day, when you have your own children.”
It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and touched a burning star, and it is both unendurable and terrifying.
She is near forty, divorced and overweight, which renders her entirely invisible in the eyes of Korean men of every generation.
