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Korean American
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My editor asks, 'Why does it need to be painful?'
My partner asks, 'Why do you fight so much?'
My audience asks, 'But where is hope in the darkness of your work?'
My ancestors ask, 'Why do you make your hands claw around the lie of your solitude?'
My government asks, 'Why won't you let us use your body to feed the worms?'
I ask, 'What can I write down?
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― How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
― How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
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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
