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Korean American
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Language spoken by parents to each other: fluent Korean. I grew up hearing marriage as a foreign language—literally and figuratively. I grew up hearing the sound of Korean as a language of Korean-bound han syndrome, disappointment, fury, resignation, the sense of being trapped forever, resentment, guilt. Every other word: a door slammed.
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― The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018: New Fiction, Poetry, and Category-Defying Literary Gems
― The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018: New Fiction, Poetry, and Category-Defying Literary Gems
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Every meal, even a somber one like this, was a celebration of what we had left, what remained on this earth to taste and feel and see.
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