[Crying in H Mart] # Chapter 14

 

 

 

 

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[Review previous expression]

•  squinted: look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light.
  • [origin] The sunset over the Santa Monica beach was spectacular. The orange sunlight was so strong, making me squint
  • [chatgpt] The sunset over Santa Monica Beach was spectacular. The orange sunlight was so strong that it made me squint.

We canceled our trip to Bahama because my friend was incapaciated by so excruciating back pain during the spring week. I tried to support her reassuring over and over, but that was all we had left to offer.

 

"We canceled our trip to the Bahamas because my friend was incapacitated by excruciating back pain during the spring break. I tried to support her by reassuring her over and over, but that was all we had left to offer."

 

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[Summarize this chapter]

[origin] As preparing for her mother's funeral, she also prepared to say goodbye to her. She found each close friend of her mom embraced their grief in their way. I liked that she tried to understand others' sorrows during the funeral and held her own until the end of the funeral. After being alone, she ended up internalizing sorrow by envisioning her mother's future life through her legacy.

 

[chatgpt] While preparing for her mother's funeral, she also braced herself to say goodbye. She noticed that each of her mother's close friends embraced their grief in their own way. I appreciated how she tried to understand others' sorrows during the funeral and held her own until the end. After finding herself alone, she internalized her sorrow by envisioning the future her mother's legacy would have shaped.

 

 

Most of the preparations for her mother’s funeral were handled by her father, but the important aspects such as the cemetery, headstone, and epitaph were overseen by the family. Her mother loved the word ‘lovely,’ and it held special meaning for her. However, at the end of the funeral, they discovered that it had been written as ‘loving…’. After the funeral, the author cooked doenjang jjigae for her relatives, Nami and Seong Yeong, before they woke up. They shared a deep connection

over the meal and a necklace. A few days later, when they departed, the author received a letter from the teacher who had been in her mother’s art class. The teacher had left her a paper bag containing two pages of a letter, a tea set they used to drink tea before her mother was diagnosed with cancer, and sketchbooks her mother had used for drawing. Through these items, the author felt her mother’s emotions and the messages she had conveyed through her art.”

 

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[Quotes that I liked ]

 

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