Drowned In Starlight

00: Before

My memory is quite spotty, so some facts may be inaccurate.

As a child, my father worked at a software company, and my family-my mother, my father, my sister, and I-would go for picnics at the park near our house.

My parents also owned two Thai restaurants at the time-C.A. and C.O.M.

Every summer we would go to Thailand to visit the rest of my family; my paternal grandparents came from China and currently live in Bangkok, Thailand-my grandfather died when I was 6, and my maternal grandfather died before I was born.

I had a lot of cousins on my mom's side; seven to be exact.

One day, my aunt was getting new dogs after Perry, the old one, died. (Perry was a cute fluffy white pomeranian)

She was testing out each dog before she adopted them. There were this one set of golden retrievers, who had been badly abused by their former owners. We were playing with them, out in the front yard of my aunt's house.

I was peacefully petting one of the two golden retrievers, when they suddenly bit me!

I was only about six years old then, and my mom was at a hair salon getting a hair cut because her hair was getting long and she cut our hair for us so no one was there to cut it for her. She only got half of her hair cut, though, because immediately my aunt rushed me to the hospital or something I think.

She was so rushed that she had me sit in the front seat, at six years old! That experience was both frightening and exhilarating, because I felt like I was going to fall out the windshield.

I have a birthmark on my right forearm, and the dog bit me there so my aunt was kinda concerned.

Oh yeah, and since in Thailand the driver seat is on the right I sat in the left passenger seat.

I had to get shots and stuff to avoid getting rabies or something, I guess.

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(Back in America)

My parents decided to open a new restaurant and close C.A.

A.T. opened in 2016. I can barely remember it, but COM was quite bad because the manager ran it badly.

My whole life changed after that.