Almond 7

1. 

Mom blamed stress during her pregnancy, or the one or two cigarettes she had smoked in secret, or the few sips of beer she couldn't resist in the last month before her due date, but it was obvious to me why my brain was messed up.

 

2.

something to offset my lack of emotions. If so, I could've been on TV, and my sloppy paintings would've sold for more than ten million won. Unfortunately, I was no genius.

 

3.

After the Mickey Mouse Hairband Incident, Mom began "educating" me in earnest.

 

4.

No matter how much people scolded me with their angry looks, it didn't work.

 

5.

Screaming, yelling raising eyebrows ... I couldn't grasp that all these things meant something specific, that there was an implication behind each action. I just took things at face value.

 

6.

It was a little too much for seven-year-old me to grasp.

 

7.

Granny tutted that this kind of cramming was pointless, but she still cut out the arrow shapes to glue onto the paper.