'Isn't the plane already
landed, is it?' I was impatient and left my husband, who was about to park, and
ran to the terminal one coming from Seoul.
Rarely people are coming
out. A Korean woman next to me raised her hand and greeted the man wearing a
suit. I asked if the plane from Seoul had arrived. "My husband came in
first class and I am not sure." I thought, first class, will fly faster
than regular class. Watching her walk away with her husband arm in arm with her
husband. Oh! Isn't it the same plane!
The child, who left home to
look around the world in his youthful vigor, came out belatedly with a large
backpack on his shoulder, in the form of a sunburned Southeast Asian. It's the
difference between comfort and discomfort. It is the same speed as first class
or economy class!
My biological father was
suddenly admitted to the hospital. I urgently got a ticket to Seoul and went to
the airport. When I walked through a long passage to get on board I met a
distant relative. I was glad meet her.
“Are you going to Seoul?
Good for us. I hope we can talk together during the long trip.” "I ride
first class." "Oh, yes." She said, "let's talk when we get
off at the Alaska airport." "Enough then, I'll wait." She went
into the first-class passage on the left. I entered the economy class on the
right.
I waited for her at Alaska
Airport which stopover a brief. I searched for her, but I didn't see her.
She is a distant relative
who has lived poor in Korea and came to America, a dream country, and worked
hard in her own business, and succeeded in her own way. I met her three or four
times at a family meeting. "Are you still living there?" is her
greeting, with a slight derogatory tone whenever we meet.
A long time ago, she came to
my Brooklyn studio that has no heating. She was surprised to see me living
then. Her memory seems to be imprinted with me shivering in a cold studio all
the time.
The beginning of the United
States was the beginning of the losers. When we left our homeland, we were
determined to live up to our expectations in every field. However, she can't
even look back on past difficulties just because her circumstances have
improved a little, and she speaks out the vulgar sense.
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