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why won't you leave me alone? you would always plague my dreams because you aren't satisfied, but i want you to be satisfied mother

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why won't you leave me alone? you would always plague my dreams because you aren't satisfied, but i want you to be satisfied mother.

whenever you wanted me to, i gave you what you wished for. i brought you teeth, both animal and human, but you needed more.

you told me you wouldn't be proud of me until i gave you the best i had.

only then would you be happy with me.

i remembered the last bedtime story you told me before you died:

once there was a rich man
who had a wife that was
due to give birth soon

but suddenly, the wife fell
extremely ill, so much
so that she could not
move from her bed without
help

the husband tried
everything to keep his wife
and his unborn son alive,
giving several physicians gold
and silver in order to treat her

but none ever worked

the night before the
rich man's sick wife was set
to give birth, a magical
python visited his mansion

it said that it would grant
his wife and his baby full
health, but only if the rich
man would offer up the
son to it as a slave

the rich man was in a
dilemma, but he wanted his
family to be kept alive,
so he agreed

you then told me that in order to gain something, you had to give something away.

and sometimes in order to gain peace and happiness, you had to give up something dear to you first.

right?

- lee minho, 17

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