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  1. Apr 2021
    1. All right, I’Il let you have one if you promise you won’t buy this medicine anywhere else.”

      Is the owner using his power over selling the medicine?

    2. I came to see if you could take care of me, and is this the way it’s going to be?”

      Although she didn’t take care of his son, she wants her son to take care of herself. This is too selfish.

    3. looked so dull that she didn’t seem to be looking directly at Tori

      The mother is not even looking at her son in this meeting after many years. I am wonder what made her sick and does she really not caring her son at all.

    1. I felt like I had been away from home a long time, but in fact I had spent no more than one night away. This realization saddened me to tears.

      I think her inner journey has been started from a long time ago, so her physical journey feels long although it is not.

    2. though it was distressing, rigorously devoted herself to doing this thing as if it were some fated task she could not set aside until her dying day.

      It is sad to see how human remembers the worst parts in his life until he dies. Like the past of this old woman, probably a traumatic moment from an war, it keeps repeating in her head and actions.

    3. I decided in an instant that I would also return to Seoul that day

      She has no idea on whether they will find the son or not, but she still decides to go to Seoul together because they do it ‘together.’

    1. soup-and-rice house.

      This place makes Mansok angry because it has a lot of opportunities to meet random people-men, and it probably makes him to think about his previous wife with her affair.

    2. but is this the first time you’ve been married?”

      Just interesting to see their relationship is happening so quickly without knowing deeply each other.