My Parents Abandoned Me

ears... " A fat, short woman clung to my sleeve,

ilt all these years. Please forgive us." The ma

nown the way b

rive from my grandmother's

y parents had never come

nd the world, my grandmother told me that my p

me not to

to "my home" for

andmother had saved up for

more than half an hour, but

hat the eggs might

money. Those eggs were the only

e. Do you understand? You are the sweetest girl," my gran

I could still maintain a good relationship with

stant relatives you visit

ways better, which meant that I would hav

hed the door of "my

tiptoes and knoc

d, and my fath

at me but s

's words echoe

was the fir

flatly, and he so

m cautiously

canvas shoes and said, "Take off y

inside b

y feet were red because

on the floor in the room. My mother s

ring them for you," I said while taking t

" she replied, glancing

hat she meant and put

there, some chicken and a

I had left early that morning, after eating onl

ere, like

. Although we are a family

that I wasn

rother playing with his toy car. The wheel

No one offered me a seat or a drink

ossip from my grandmother's neighbors. Th

nkrupt, they were still

ight, with sunlight strea

living room, and the wooden fu

brother was dressed in a red padd

at embroidered with a tiger'

to play with h

ked into another room to b

rful it would be if my grandmother

en want me. How could they po

my mind. "They must have had no o