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“I called to her in two languages. Even the. I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.”

(First word was Umma and Mum)

“It felt like the world divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”

“When one person collapses, the other instinctively shoulders their weight.”

“My mother’s last words were pain.”

“My own weight loss made me feel tied to her I wanted to embody a physical warning- that if she began to disappear I would disappear too.”

“He didn’t tell me until much later that my parents had called him first. That he had known she was sick before me, that he promised them that he would be there when I found out. That he would be there through it all.”

“I’m collecting evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”

“We’re all searching for a price of home, or a piece of ourselves. We look for a taste of it in the food we order and the ingredients we buy.”

“Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?”