![]() ![]() We had a full house: Grandmother, Father, Mother, my six older sisters. I would leave the road, scramble up a steep slope and squat at the edge of the cliff, because it was a good spot to watch out for them, but also, I just liked looking down at the sea. I used to wait there for my father to come home from his job at the harbor office or for my mother to come back from the market. Seagulls shattered the sunlight’s reflection on the surface of the water, which glittered like fish scales, before wheeling off into the sun itself. From the top of the hill, I watched the lumbering steel ships anchored in the water and the tiny fishing boats sluggishly making their way around them, the rattle of their engines just reaching my ears. In the spring, clusters of azalea blossoms would poke out from among the dry weeds, elbowing each other for space in the vacant lots, and flare a deeper red in the glow of the morning and evening sun as Mount Gwanmo, still capped with snow and cloaked in clouds from the waist down, floated against the wide eastern sky. ![]() ![]() We lived in a house at the top of a steep hill overlooking the sea. I was barely twelve when my family was split apart. ![]()
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