The woman who borrowed money

With a dark expression on their faces, the black-clad people were coming into the funeral hall one by one. The woman I'm looking for will sit in the back row like me, confirm my sister-in-law's death, and get up in a hurry. I sat in the back seat and looked around to catch a suspicious-behaving woman.

I look around but don't know who is who. It's just that the person who borrowed the money is a woman and that she'll definitely show up to confirm my sister-in-law's death. Even if I have a guess, what would I do? I don't have a piece of paper to prove.

My sister-in-law passed away at a young age. She lent a considerable amount of money to a woman she knew. When the woman who borrowed the money didn't pay her back, she became nervous and tried to get the money back, but she didn't get it, then collapsed from internal bleeding. Even no one knows how much money she lent to anyone.

In the early seventies, she came to the United States after marrying my brother-in-law, a Korean American. At that time, women who married Korean American man had to support their appearance. This was the time when Koreans American man used to go to Korea and bring pretty brides.

She was not only a beautiful was good but also the personality was nice and good at cooking. She always wore sunglasses, turned up the music volume and liked to drive in fancy clothes. She said, “those are the taste of living in the U.S." On weekends, she enjoyed a barbecue. She used to say that eating meat is another fun thing to live in America.

She earned money and saved to live well in the dreamland of America. She lent money to the pleasure of receiving interest because she was deceived by the sweet talk of people around her who knew that she had money. This happened in the United States, where father and son do not talk about money. She was drawn into the confusion that often took place in Korean-American communities with her first-generation-oriented personal money transactions.

The young son, who lost his mother, walked out crying with a picture of her portrait in his chest. The daughter wailed bitterly. The close relatives who lost her in a flash were devastated.

When borrow money, borrow it like begging and after borrow it, the woman who didn't pay back, and who ended up killing one person, is she living comfortably with her legs straightened out by now? Maybe she is not? I sincerely hope not.