"Good if you're buying gold, not so good if you're buying flour." I have my hands in it after all– flour; not gold.

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"Nutmeg." I repeat, perhaps a bit sheepishly. "That woman smelled like banana bread."

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"So I took it to the old tailor lady near the park and asked her how much it would cost to alter it." she continues, "She's cheaper because she spilled Kim-chi on the shirt I took her last time."

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This is how Koreans always respond when you didn't catch part of their sentence. The always just repeat the part you understood.

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In Korea, everyone lives in a city, but everyone's parents live on a farm in their rural hometown.

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They are all really just dull wedges now, why should she know there are different blades for different tasks.

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I've finally figured my wife out– she loves platitudes. I think it is because she doesn't pay attention to what other people say.

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"People our age don't ever mean anything naughty," my wife says, once again killing what little tendrils of hope I manage to send through the crust of everyday life.

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