saved up change to buy dad a carnation. he threw it in the yard.
it wasn't like i was bawling every day or anything, but my mom and dad had this massive fight and she just. left. gone for a year. i was in middle school, my little sibling was in elementary. so naturally all the housework just became mine. every morning before school i had to feed my sibling first, then come home and do all the chores, and if i didn't my dad would scold me. that was just life.
and then parents' day rolls around on the calendar and i notice it. but we were both SO young, there was genuinely nothing we could do. so i scraped together a few thousand won, walked to the corner store, and bought a carnation for my dad.
he threw it in the yard the next day.
just. left it there. i didn't even think to water it or pick it up, i just left it sitting there for days.
been thinking a lot of things since then.
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