"There is nothing to sell. I'll be gone a week, Nampo's husband is in the navy. She will have food." I want you to stay here."
"You're not leaving me."What are you not saying to me?"Im coming with you no matter what."
Chapter 8; Pages 77 78Sungju and his mother talk about her leaving to find food. Sungju is afraid of being left alone and wants to go with her, but she believes the journey is too dangerous for him.
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"Eomeoni!" "Where are you"?!?!?
Chapter 9; Pages 79 80Sungju awoke to find his mother vanished from home. He panicked as he jumped out of bed.
"EOMEONI!"
He Goes out to search for her at the train station, then the Ha-myeon Bridge.
He then searched at the market, and from that point he walked up to several women thinking that from their backside they were his mother.
"For goodness sakes WHERE ARE YOU EOMEONI"?
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" I lost Bo-Cho, my dreams of becoming general, my schooling, Pyongyang, my piano, my doghouse, my father... my mother.
Chapter 9; Page 80As the sky slid into twilight, Sungju limped back to the road and collapsed beinnging to sob...
He crawled back into the house, dragged himself to Eomeoni's bedding, where he wrapped himself in her scent
"Eomeoni, Eomeoni..."
He sulked outside and drew enough water from the well to fill the empty pot, then he put it and the small box of salt beside my mat.
"For a week, I will not move-- to save energy."
As he woke the next day, he thought his mother had returned doing her prayers. He saw a letter poking from underneath her prayer table. *He reads what she said*