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TOW I Am Back (Part 3)

【洪】ILHONG 2004. 7. 30. 00:50

After the burial, many relatives left Jang Ho Won...

I didn't leave right away because there was another death among relatives. Tae Hong's the other grandmother also died, who is also in Jang Ho Won...

I felt sorry for him, but I was so exhausted that I could not do something about it or show my sympathy to all...

On that evening, I returned to Tae Pyong Ri, and slept right away. It was first time I slept when I was in Korea... I slept until some late time, then I found myself returning to Jang Ho Won on that evening to count the number of guests and money received from visitors.

It started at 10 pm because my father expected that Tae Hong's family would be up by that time after resting from funeral of his other grandmother. There were around 1000 registered visitors, which meant around 1300 at least including nonregistered. Moreover, counting the money and and making the computerized-list continued until 3:30 am, but I could not finish it (there was only one computer with Excel)... Hence we postponed the completion of the list.

It was the fifth day since my grandmother's death. Everyone was to be gathered to her grave again and do another memorial server. Well, as usuall, there was some quarrel among uncles... and it was another labor day for me, but I somehow dodged those... And cousins understood my weakness to the heaet exposure...

When we were returned, the list of the visitors were completed by a sister-in-law... She should have gone through a lot of trouble as I did, she did a half after the half I did...

But then, it was really goodbye to my cousins... I listed their contacts in my PDa which later Won Hyeok erased all by his mistake...

Sigh...

I am sad for the loss of the contacts...