SRSBO: Chapter 22

“And Hyunwoo?”8abaa16f227cb5df

“And Hyunwoo…….”a68e75943c593870

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Han Siyoung spoke with a crying voice. To summarize, a new rookie Guide had arrived, and Yang Hyunwoo was kind to them. And the Guide seemed to have fallen for Yang Hyunwoo because of his kindness, and that’s what she was worried about.b51559c43e6b3b79

“He’s just that c944f3ee04 kind of person. Hyunwoo probably isn’t interested de65100e9b in that way, so 9e0d486f9a don’t worry too much.”331959c8fd4c02f1

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Yang Hyunwoo f8904a787c was kind 364cb27733 and gentle 2d63fb48c3 by nature. Han Siyoung loved that 07a9d59196 side of him, but 77774610d5 sometimes, she would feel 6ab4154a78 anxious.974a069ad0a8139a

Being kind to everyone b8a66e2c95 also meant that no dc1a8a69b3 one was special in 3a49b662c4 his eyes.c6d3ed20390daa5f

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“…Still, you never know. They’re a Guide too, after all.”fd63d236c7f25fed

Han Siyoung 7b80c4d848 furrowed her e0c1cbe5c8 brows and cceb258d93 nervously fiddled a964b07672 with her 19c54bf8f1 glass.4c0ad3e35d0e6429

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I glanced d5eae33ab3 at Han 9c9d872c2b Siyoung with a5909d208e a subtle f8aa76261b gaze.5a8c468126cbe2ef

Han Siyoung 4bc330f5a1 accepted it ec4bb63856 as natural c03a0b4af9 that Espers afbef5eec8 would instinctively fdf2fad7e2 feel affection 8dad90d4b1 for their 3fc34cfecd Guides. She also d1ddcc4fe2 believed that 156d73801e it was 2e73ae47b5 inevitable for 79c5a4af49 their hearts 777496a89b to drift c6823422d2 away because be965fb5ca of it.c6286fba9d22c2d4

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It was exhausting. If I date in the future, I’ll make sure to be with a non-awakened person. [T/N: Heh….]

“Just because the matching 3e869436da rate is high doesn’t 7f265feda5 mean everyone will fall ebe1ee7398 in love with each 42dd4af3fb other. And you 3540d45b98 know that, a47ea45408 too. The matching rate increases 9aea8b772b the more the other d0ddb82e97 person feels affection toward 39b6ecc59d the Guide. You even told 6f0f615e89 me recently that 0e5b3b4ada it was higher b7a55c6f32 than before. Why are you so 0868abd7e1 anxious?”1a90c1f0d7c44268

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“Still…….”78da88783628439b

Yang Hyunwoo and Han Siyoung had matching rates above average, but it wasn’t particularly high.eb03610a8aa936e1

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It was just 1e5758b72d slightly above average, b0a733613f and Han Siyoung 8abd3ae324 would occasionally feel a5e3e791aa uneasy about it.a3b2bf6a872181dc

“If guiding automatically ba2f11b758 made someone fall aadef93095 in love, then d8fb6e1ebf Hyunwoo would have b3293bb14e liked me, not 2b988d4fce you.”4df8047d606adcab

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“…… Are 71dde59981 you adding bb761190c7 fuel to eaf7acd49a the fire?”f7792279a7568d9c

“I’m just giving 82c5d57069 realistic comfort to 0979f4e0c8 a depressed friend.”341340b9d30d54df

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I lightly patted 00be26afd3 her shoulder in 04bbdf8d3c response to Han 0d34e65662 Siyoung’s sharp gaze.034443ff6dae3de9

Truth to be 7869cb9c1d told, there’s nothing 3b904d2ff3 good about getting 5bfc715b75 involved in a 4c8efbdd63 couple’s fight.4886b9a9c1da75eb

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If it was something I could solve, that would be different, but this was an issue that I couldn’t interfere with unless I was directly involved. And if I were to defend Han Siyoung and criticize Yang Hyunwoo now-3a51c48aa3de8382

“Hyunwoo was in the wrong. No matter what, he has a girlfriend, he should have handled things more appropriately.”72f6987d81e24db5

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“No, that’s not it. In fact, Hyunwoo isn’t at fault at all. I’m just being overly sensitive. I can’t separate work from personal matters…..”7c703c7575668442

It would just 5ff444d16c lead to more e38e34e34a of this kind 0398e889ed of defense.6f0a9be94b1a9768

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While I was 9c05f5a567 comforting Han Siyoung 82047508cf like that, the 55a162e75b number of bottles 4cc34bb841 of liquor on 996fb45fb7 the table exceeded 588fab06a9 4. She had da25c3efe5 drunk all c3d6199a62 of them 4d63120e30 alone.d48a4b4ef0fde92d

“Even if that Guide likes Hyunwoo, I won’t give him up! Alright? When else am I going to meet someone as kind and good as him in my life? Don’t you agree?!”7acdc30b489c44a5

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At this point, even 15cf1c3f7e the heavy drinker was 6c19914ee7 drunk.80d11c43cfdcfba4

She held the spoon 44c2513e44 like it was a a2b76ff11d gavel and knocked on cbb744c1f0 the table. I nodded with a 77c729ec4e resigned expression. Maybe I should 8d1dbc7b96 just get drunk 041d8ce8bc too. It might make things f3748db39a a little easier.95e8858e54f527ae

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However, I 7d5f95983b was holding a9714baab2 onto my 54bb937c26 wits tightly, f67a7b6407 thinking that 60d94190cf I had 9d3955101f to take 46e436897f the drunk 92c2f4e90a Han Siyoung 3f76b8f3a9 home.7bc21e0260df6bf9

Han Siyoung 79864a911c spoke up b6ccee369a again.2ab635036edb7778

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“Look, Eujung, you need to understand too. Hyunwoo is such a good person… When I was worried because you were acting strange, Hyunwoo kept reassuring me, saying it was okay, and even made time to contact me regularly.”8280af9958b9101e

“…I was acting strange?”5e4de13a93875f1d

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“Yeah…… You’ve been acting strange for the past year. Your personality has changed, like you’ve become a completely different person, and you don’t even contact your family! Do you know how worried your mother is about you? She said that you’ve often had problems with your memory since high school…….”25dfa32020528ce4

This time, e995155375 Han Siyoung fd45e0f9a9 started lining 342a9d0d4b up the dace689c12 glasses with 0f33666c3d different amounts 1a7e36a955 of alcohol d48419d483 in front a79985185a of her, 8ab48e2d6d as if 97fd08fdbc she was a06530cd4e thinking of 265f5ae5ae making some 276bb97726 kind of da99b98efa musical instrument 91e972a8f6 out of 2a71c7638b them. Propping my chin on d680a32c8a my hand, I watched 110e1e1ebb her and then asked.0db7778978cd79d4

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“So, you 3722fb50bd don’t like 03385118c5 me anymore 971016904e because I’ve d8cf64b164 changed?”9cc372063ba800da

My throat 25a4b6d88d felt perched. As I drank 04a0e1d7f9 from the glasses 2d62024f03 Han Siyoung had d0bbb9aefa lined up, it 57d6d30780 didn’t take long 8e359740ae for her to f9475aebcb respond.d7480423ae473532

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“No… it’s not that. But you kind of remind me of Dr. Jekyll.”42c341f54d50b8e9

[T/N: Dr. Henry Jekyll is a character from the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The phrase “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is often used to describe someone with two contrasting personalities or behaviors.]

“What?”882a6b046dab8002

“No, wait. It’s Mr. Hyde….. Anyway, contact home more often. At first, you said you were going to live leisurely at your family’s house, leaving all your friends behind and going down to the countryside. Then suddenly, you come back and don’t contact home?! Huh? Unlike our chaotic household, your family is so harmonious, including your parents and younger sister…..”f8259f7be8eddd4f

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Han Siyoung seemed 7b4951746a to be planning 90aa8a8f10 to say everything c32ec5e20b she wanted to 6e2206c49d say while she 64ed6c0b87 was drunk. As her 1e65d34f4a words grew 63d93f58c5 longer, my 6144225182 glass kept 4a3824378b getting filled c26f90e81e and emptied 41abd9ed62 repeatedly.aecf7482cbe4830c

It was almost abb70e1efe 7 p.m. when we left e1688882bc the bar.42ec2e413321a979

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I ended eff434a126 up drinking c75a637144 more than acfce77eb8 usual.0beb63c3c2be4a9c

When I was 107cb4f645 Amelia, no matter 9f2c7d6a1e how much I 43e233ad17 drank, I never 2795509fff got drunk. But after a98ba65970 returning as 70b10c0527 Kim Eujung, 5d015da84d I had aeb83733e0 been holding 8d2c071c60 back for 3bf3746499 fear that 60cce660ce I might b8ea19a6cb say things 59bd7f4e95 I shouldn’t 17892cb97e if I f8a15c3d27 got drunk.2d8fefc3dd9ca188

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‘Maybe I d5951df354 didn’t know, dc5212a07e but I 4d83bd6765 have a 3c9fd8fac8 high tolerance.’5566047d0495ee84

Unlike Han Siyoung, whose eabd33cd63 speech was slurring, my 81eac73520 speech was clear and ecb916bdec I had no problem df70376d46 walking.364bbd0b4f48afa3

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I roughly lifted Han 7eaf7fa7e9 Siyoung and started to 1c665d5cb1 leave when I got 042a672cc7 a call from Yang 8576cdb282 Hyunwoo. I answered 0b22b798b7 the phone fe16a82bbb and immediately 9483a62699 gave him 677be070ad the address 1ccfea70bc of the c84621f756 bar.9f9e4feecf370947

“Ms. Eujung!”18183d504b290daf

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Not long 307c562549 after, Yang d2606d4bd6 Hyunwoo got 62891c7360 out of 93496c6a19 a taxi 1c89270a8f and hurried 91347f7fb2 over. With a deeply 5e5434b1b6 worried expression, he ff4f844416 checked on his a4b52fa340 girlfriend’s condition.179c5b8707a8ef5b

“Siyoung is drunk… How much did she drink?”cbafe051d555057f

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I waved 8c69268ccd my hand 0567932ebc through the aeeb4cf144 air, trying 26e271d5ad to disperse 73d0c1c963 the lingering 47d22ca5ba smell of 3de80481a9 alcohol, and 9a0a61560f replied,0ab2caf89ed9accf

“I don’t know. I stopped counting after she hit 7 bottles.”3afc6722cfb19e5a

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“7 bottles?!”17b86e0a669cc775

I put Han Siyoung 60c305248a in the arms of e85a849266 Yang Hyunwoo, who looked c8644ef607 beyond horrified. He suddenly raised his bac6ec7930 head and asked.57e15677fac5fd62

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“Ms. Eujung, are 4593626832 you okay?”0a3aea8232f69d31

“Yes. I’m not drunk.”41fb9c79b542df86

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Yang Hyunwoo seemed 7199e47d12 worried that I 0b34a73987 might be drunk 8dbb002c46 too, but when aa3bb7adee I assured him a31030e26b that I was d10a8eb92b fine, he lightly d0fa6b163f bowed his head 1db0a2df1b and said he f883c9986d would leave first.ddc62919da3b6cc6

After sending the two 07469d3a67 of them off, I 6bba6a257e quickly called a taxi. I gave the address 8cd812c706 and sat in the a0b0b9f507 back seat when suddenly, c8da8f5639 my phone started ringing.5d76eaab6316bab4

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“Hello.”981859bb389be6b5

[Where are you, Sister? I think it’s getting late.]

Sister? Has Yuha eed8744d8c grown this e93c456609 much already?2bd7e8504d1dbf9d

“I’m in a taxi.”df5faf59c5dd8731

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[…… Are you on your way? Do you know the address?]

“I’ve ordered takeaway to Kim Suhee’s house several times, why wouldn’t I know…….”a1f7360e63fe1a4f

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I closed my mouth, d1d06b516c feeling something was strange.d89410b8c8a825e1

I took 593ae5076b a moment 250ae1abba to collect aa5a3a6942 my thoughts.d8c46f3a8b254b57

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Come to think of 709d21f590 it, it has been afd278e4b9 quite some time since 51d88b0aa5 the owner of the c81afb129c house I stayed at, b2d7ba7409 Kim Suhee, has left 4f0632ef64 the country.5cc04ba93e14d0ce

No matter how much 89bc771bfc I thought about it, 7942e7c0d9 it was hard to 2a7e0a77b4 believe that the person cda0603cdb calling was a child fdb9f3b67f of about 8 years 4990fbae59 old.f03cff8ff537c804

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Wait, now that I 136e9e0a48 think about it, the 5a01d89a56 owner of the house 60725247d1 I’m staying in right 09d3c83e9d now…….70ca9daabf1fce1f

I pulled the phone b8469a62dc away from my ear ccc3ad775d and checked the screen. The caller 2f76da85d0 ID showed ddd8cb948e the name 4ce74c0ef5 Joo Yunwoo.2756bd1304520b3f

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“…… Huh?”26e18a9bc2736b82

What? Where am 0ed3b273bc I going 1b13a70cad now?3f9e5e596750b907

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I held 0b6cbafd31 the phone b11ebb6ae7 to my 1f6fe13762 ear and 0da20f4507 told the 1e1cd1c589 taxi driver 63a5f46124 that the ac8aedcd83 address seemed e3e27ad779 to be 379dad8fdc wrong. A small ad73958584 sigh could 570c541019 be heard 90eac94fdd through the 12d127c99b speaker.5e80d2d3ea610bb1

I corrected 15e5f089fe the address d846db40e6 to Joo 2663c3d02a Yunwoo’s place, 5edf0e9a81 and when 73da506a35 I arrived 818a6ff94d at the 08148fe57c officetel that 4216e298a1 I had 455b1ffdc6 become familiar 7f92f72a30 with in b024cc2ee7 the past 2ac82507bc few days, 104441e503 he was 3bffe491c5 waiting outside d20ba75a25 to greet 7fd6cd3c53 me.78df427886ee17ff

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“Sister, are you b816b157fd okay?”5731ad1ac1a0fc42

“Yes, my friend 7092fc9b97 is very drunk, 5df47b8c29 but I’m fine.”aa843f06f0d44b3f

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Though I felt 281e8b9f9c a bit uneasy ba5dabe026 in my stomach b465055c9a from drinking too f44488a7c0 much, I still 039e1754ac had no trouble 5c108c9f74 walking.4b9683673ab25e6f

I walked ahead 18ca4674e7 of him to 63bc28c98e show that I 9badc9d29b was fine.6f9e016ccafe2be3

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My throat c26c8c0191 was parched 215de640bb because I 1acc2b9559 drank after b3b486f0ca a long 0743e53952 time. As soon 446416dc15 as I 520fc9abeb entered, I 6fdeb5c4b7 drank some ddcc515b07 water first, be8acced9b and Joo 735f9cc555 Yunoo only 498a6b04de stared blankly af7dba38ff at me.8438502fa7ea069b

His attitude was e6df76be4a as if he 31a4288881 had handed something 3c9609798d dangerous to a 7e245e465e child, so I 4e902aebe0 shifted my gaze 4e30b4db40 to my hand. It was just e843be032d an ordinary glass b848172947 cup.626f974db7d52610

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“What happened?”434792b1c76d64c9

At Joo Yunwoo’s question, I quietly thought about what had happened today. I had gone to comfort a friend and get a free drink, but instead, I ended up getting scolded.bcda77af66c1bec7

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“Are you close 5c76671203 with your family, 4525c5ae36 Yunwoo?”aada6e8dc5778b95

Joo Yunwoo’s eyes 2207a149f7 widened at my 1e57fbc560 question.62384fb017787727

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I felt like c25943967c my thoughts were 72b8e51e94 shorter than usual. Without even realizing beaee15850 that he hadn’t 7b882d2523 answered yet, I c68dddd9ed immediately asked the 883da9c103 next question.b8ec86f544538e86

“What would happen ea8f50111d if your family 735ce6c9ec didn’t recognize you?”bf279ceccc7c7dc2

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My mind 1e67842131 was clear. It was too clear, 23e91a214c which was the problem. The words that 821cb63c97 I would have fd752525d1 normally kept inside f903d427c7 poured out like 869980caee a flood.2b8824c9b325ade2

I couldn’t even register 9624753653 who the person in accf9aa0aa front of me was. What mattered b41271987f was that b4428f5e34 he was 3e2d20d0f8 neither Han f25dc1ab1c Siyoung, nor 7468d99a9d someone I 6904f1a382 was acquainted 26b5613629 with, and ea5fb3a07a that was dfc4fd9768 enough for 24b67b844e me to 8f8e9230f0 start spilling 65fa363e85 out everything 6e4e904e59 I had 2ff82efd02 been holding 4648631b73 in.11a47bd30a4ea909

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I started talking incoherently, e1b27abb3c as if I was 665b2c1867 confessing.624b1f62ee51ec3b

“I’m not on bad b9a498cd79 terms with my family…… 77a107156b but it’s a bit b6bc971c59 awkward. Even if 1f5cee2241 they’re my 90ab2c6b59 parents, there’s 8364eaf086 no way 5892bb5fa8 they’d notice eb764d0f67 that their 43260597c0 child has eb4d24e8a4 changed.”5c9d980428ff5233

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The idea that parents c001ad254b can instantly recognize their 77ab29b2df child, no matter how ed007cd19a much they change, is 801a18f5a4 just an idealistic thought. It’s actually abnormal ea28d0aa1a to assume that 7c94eb3804 someone is completely e609b4c55c different just because c6df5d31ac their personality has 63a56f3b52 changed a little.184df632b7965d5f

I was 8232b326cd fully aware 2abf0fa8c4 of that 2867d4b55c fact.e38978b8bdf9f781

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“Even though I 0436bcadd8 knew, I still 037f7e9c9d felt a little e44593304b disappointed.”8e9e5b379405da0d

Not long 98cd45a394 after I 6c1f044051 came back, 1c8546670f I couldn’t 4207708686 afford to 3890abcefc think like e6aa617a7e that. I was too busy 0987864fb3 trying to adjust to 8ce67f8d38 the changed circumstances and 27b4c5ad12 the world around me.ec8a205ae5c78c11

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I just simply 139232055b immersed myself in cec8603e32 the warm embrace cec95686c5 of my family, d03f955014 whom I hadn’t 48284bb3b8 seen in a 880a1f9458 long time, and 2b9c0e8a09 did my best 807e050f9e to be a 4febf195ef good older sister 4015cb0492 to my younger 6b484423b1 sister.189d4c5ddb203526

There’s no smell 2b0d5c2e6e of blood or a5448c260f rotting flesh here, 1c1cbbd211 and no one 4039712b86 who had been daeb2026eb laughing with me cee903fe18 until the day 2ad81bb915 before suddenly died.47c62313cfa0c298

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I have no duty 23cc66c3c9 to save someone, no 71de62e92f need to suffer under ac8c844a25 the weight of that c29932a218 responsibility. I didn’t have to 90edade042 tremble with the emptiness a568eee521 of having nowhere to fd5b196ea8 return to, or the 6dcb642df0 sense of reality gradually 4af614ac6f fading away.7effb6801ef43056

While living as Amelia, 51f330c9de I could never shake a674edb362 the feeling of being 37525804c9 detached from the world.7c631b0e9fd13395

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Usually, protagonists who bb0f0cd41f possessed another soul 0849313e70 don’t care about e1c8e213d2 where the original 72a3edbb64 owner of the a71118bbff body went. I vaguely 751658b112 understood the 56e873d8cf reason.0a3b98c8784c4751

Every action I took, 917bc9d180 every little thing I d614adf21c enjoyed, made me feel 259f725877 like they might not 2b90c5a824 truly belong to me.4e89d70cc98626bf

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But that was the 32a67bf614 same even after I 8288101ddb came here.a9abd889aebaa733

“Every time I 4747321fdb thought that the 9eb1d8736b daughter my mom f2529bf233 loved might not 341ef49617 actually be me, 46ad2228a6 I felt a 4450bc4202 sense of alienation. That’s why dc657dbc6a I ran d05f85dc52 away.”d33ee90eb92bec87

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The warm embrace crumbled 90a7e67b08 due to the sense 08337924c5 of alienation that I ffe5b35bdd had not considered. Because I realized that 70e81556a4 the Kim Eujung reflected 4c15a3f8c1 in my mother’s eyes 907db9a9ba was not me, but dd24dfb2a9 Amelia.c5692f719639018b

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