You know why I don't go on a wild goose chase to find my "true" home in Korea, to find my "true" Korean family? Why I don't change my name back to my "true" Korean name?
We're leaving the soccer fields yesterday after a hard-fought tie against one of the best teams in the league. Conversation turns towards Mexican Spanish and the differences between it and other regional variants of the language. We start gently teasing an American teammate who knows Spanish but is quite shy about using it because she is more used to the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican accents. I point out that I was quite shy early on.
"Ay, Julia," Sabina says, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, "Pero tú eres Mexican."
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