“Unmasking Expectations: How Hyeseung Song’s ‘Docile’ Shatters the Stereotypes of the Perfect Asian Girl”
“[My mother] loved through fierceness, which was either directed at you or towards your enemy. ‘Hyeseung-a, you are going to be okay, do you understand?’ ‘Yes, I understand,’ I said. If she had been there with me, she would have wiped my tear-stained face with a cloth, as she had done when I was in the intensive care unit months before in Houston, where she’d seen for the first time what it was for me to be ill. There, so close to my face I could feel her breath on my cheek, she’d whispered, ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t realize. Hyeseung, you are my star.’… The prospect of happiness she’d always tried to withhold from me—she now held it forth: choose yourself and no one else, open and close the doors you need to, celebrate the fire that is inside of you.”
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