Lunch with Mama
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ctharsis
Complete, First published Dec 08, 2020
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Three women, two generations, one meal.

Holly is a college student caught in the ridge between childhood and maturity. Doris hovers nervously, a once-loving auntie turned stranger by time and personality. Mama: the woman who binds them together, once the boldest of the three but suffering from dementia. One runs from the past, one still lives in it, and one cannot help but let go of it. What remains unsaid stifles the home, and they all stopper their suffering with mouthfuls of rice.
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Tumbling Korean Divorcee (Book Two)

10 parts Complete Mature

Her second marriage started a happy life in a foreign country in Jorden, then returning to England and meeting her husband's circle of people. After some while, Brian's work sent us to Uganda, a developing country where people were struggling to survive, and I was suffering unbearable pain from missing her children. When she returned to Korea, the relationship of a divorced mother with her children was unfamiliar as they did not seem to remember their mother. In 1993 Happy went with her husband to live in Egypt, comparing the various cultures of the western world and foreign women's experiences of being married to Egyptian men. She returned to South Korea, a new modern country: and her children's forgotten mother. It shows the problematic relationship between a divorced mother (Me-suk) and her children. The development of disaster matters with her ex-mother -in-law's family. During the holiday, she was hospitalised with a broken leg due to an accident with a motorcycle at a pedestrian crossing. Me-Suk's memory of a happy childhood, but her father's death and her mother's struggle to raise one son with five girls, the experience of being poor without a father. Me-Suk's mother's marriage was due to the Japanese army being in Korea, and following the Korean war, poverty reigned in the country. The Korean tradition regarded girls as second-class and disastrous experiences of poverty. It was Me-Suk's unfortunate destiny, living in misery in her mother's house; the only escape was marriage. Me-Suk returned to Egypt, where her experience was fulfilling, with western women and alien life stories. Me-Suk's daughter Ae-Jung lives an uncontrollable lifestyle of freedom at the university. The mother and stepfather experienced living with two girls, and the mother had a problematic relationship. Return to Korea, the family meets with her sisters, brother and children. Everything became past, but not her family. Mothers were meant to endure for the family.

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