A Guidebook, This Pen

No . . . We don’t know . . . These meetings? . . . Yes, I know . . . Every Wednesday . . . No, her mother didn’t mean to give her up . . . Not like that . . . She just disappeared . . . Haha . . . Into thin air . . . That’s not funny . . . When she returned . . . You know the yogwan . . . Just ask Cheryl . . . Homestay? . . . Whoa . . . She was adopted by . . . How unusual . . . I was one of eight . . . He was adopted by . . . In Minnesota . . . All of them were white . . . They were adopted by . . . After Rodney King . . . We were adopted by . . . You don’t know Rodney King? . . . Germans . . . That’s not funny . . . My first memory is of my birth mom leaving . . . I was adopted by . . . sent to . . . Hare Krishnas pulling a juggernaut with a reclining Krishna down the block . . . Sent to . . . She was adopted by . . . That is so Berkeley . . . Denmark . . . I don’t remember that . . . Sent to . . . My adopted parents won’t talk to me . . . Have you tried television? . . . Because I returned . . . I put an ad in the Choson Ilbo . . . Just be grateful . . . Gucci . . . At least my adopted parents didn’t . . . Did you hear . . . Not quite incest . . . But . . . My brothers . . . Can’t get over that . . . Grew up here in an orphanage . . . They beat her . . . Stop dancing . . . No, Ferragamo . . . I remembered Korean watching television . . . to Cali . . . I was nine. . . When I was one . . . They say I need to embrace who I am . . . I don’t think so . . . Just be grateful . . . What they’ve given me . . . We did the DNA test . . . What Jesus has given me . . . How did you find out about the group? . . . Now they keep asking me for money . . . Oh, you founded it . . . But we have volunteers who can help you . . . She left me on the bathroom floor . . . of his hotel room . . . They were all gone . . . But I am grateful . . .