My Mom Only Had One Eye__

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My Mom Only Had One Eye

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My mom only had one eye.I hated her. She was such an embarrassment1.

She ran a small shop at a flea2 market and collected old clothes and some other things to sell for the money
we needed. Once during elementary school, it was field day, and my mom came.I was so embarrassed and
wondered how could she do this to meI threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school, my
schoolmates asked me, "your mom only has one eye?!" and taunted 3 me.

I was so angry with my mom and wished that she would just disappear from this world. So I said to my mom,
"Why don't you have the other eye?! If you're only gonna make me a laughingstock!" My mon did not respond,
I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, I felt so good to have had said what I wanted to say. Maybe it
was because my mom hadn't punished me, I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

For the words I had said to her earlier,there was something pinching5 at me in the corner of my heart. Even
so, I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty. I told myself that I would become successful in the
near future, so I studied very hard. Later I got accepted by the Seoul University, I left my mother and came to
Seoul to study. Then I got married there.

I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I am living happily as a successful man. I enjoy the life
in Seoul because it's a place that doesn't remind me of my mom and my past. This kind of happiness was
getting bigger and bigger, until one day someone knocked at my door. It was my mom! And still with her one
eye! It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.
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I screamed at her, "Who are you? I don't know you! How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter!"
To this, my mom quietly answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address," and she
disappeared out of sight.

One day, a letter regarding 6 a school reunion came to my house. Lying to my wife that I was going on a
business trip, I went back to participate in the reunion. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack7, which I
used to call a house, just out of curiosity8. There I found my mom fallen on the cold ground. I did not shed4 a
single tear.

Then a piece of paper in her hand came into my eyes. It was a letter to me.

My son,

I think my life has been long enough now, and I won't visit Seoul anymore. But would it be too much to ask if I
wanted you to come to visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard you were
coming for the reunion. But I decided9 not to go to the schoolfor you. I'm so sorry that I only have one eye,
and I was an embarrassment for you.

You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't stand
watching you having to grow up with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was so proud of my son to see a
whole new world for me with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. During the couple of times
that you were angry with me, I thought to myself, it's because he loves me.

My sonoh, my son

Don't cry for me because of my death. I love you so much.

1 embarrassment

n.()

She could have died away with embarrassment.

Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.

2 flea

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n.

I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.

Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.

3 taunted

( taunt )

The other kids continually taunted him about his size.

Some of the girls taunted her about her weight.

4 shed

n.vt.vi.

There are a lot of straws in the shed.

His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.

5 pinching

v.( pinch )adj.[]

My sister's always pinching me and it really hurts.

He led his life, pinching and scraping.

6 regarding

prep.

Regarding John,I will write to him at once.

Regarding these facts,a special committee is to be appointed.

7 shack

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 adj.

He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.

The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.

8 curiosity

n.

He gave in to curiosity and opened my letter.

The children are dying of curiosity to see what's in the parcel.

9 decided

adj.

This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.

There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.

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