07/10/2026
Last night in Seoul, I sat at the same table with two women who knew me before any of this. 🤍
2013. I was new to the US, earning $43K as a scientist, and I fainted at work. I was told the ER might cost too much. Taeyoung took care of me, and Yaesul, who had just gotten her driver's license, drove me there anyway.
We worked on the same DNA analysis team and lived in the same apartment complex. They cooked for me all the time.
In 2015 I bought a restaurant and kept my lab job. Nobody at work knew. When Yaesul moved back to Korea, I fed her my pho before she left.
Then a startup told me no company would ever pay $100K for my researcher skills. So I stopped selling my time.
Restaurant owner. Lost it in COVID. Real estate. Moved to Texas. Started over from zero more than once.
Today I run a tax advisory firm with my tax girl, helping entrepreneurs stop overpaying taxes. I get my clients' journey because I've lived it.
Yaesul met me at the airport on a short layover in 2018. Taeyoung came to my little COVID-era wedding in Brooklyn. Every version of me, they stayed.
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