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'You need rest to work, and to rest, you need a certain level of income to live comfortably, she said.

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Please hire me, Maam? 🥹

In the novels I love, the characters used to be like isolated islands, until their fates gradually intertwined; the kind of stories where you whisper, 'You were here?' and a voice answers, 'Yes, always’. You think to yourself, I was a little lonely, but because of you, I'm less alone. It's a wonderful feeling and the book in your hands gives me a taste of that joy.

Instead, she learnt to listen to her body, her feel-gs, and be in happy places. She would ask herself these questions: does this place make me feel positive? Can Ibe truly whole and uncompromisingly myself? Do I love and treasure myself here? For Yeongju, the bookshop checked all the boxes.