CHAPTER 24
Something I learned is bad things don’t last forever, but neither do the good ones. And sometimes you go from one to the other — like a good thing to a bad thing or the other way around — and then sometimes you go from one good thing to an even better thing. And that’s what happened to me ’cause one day Mrs. Cho said she had a very special surprise for me, and I was gonna go to America and live with a nice family there. Well, at first I got scared on account of the only American I’d ever seen being that red-head, the one who brought me something worse than bad luck or any curse I coulda come up with on my own even if he didn’t mean to.
But the more Mrs. Cho talked about it, the more it sounded like I didn’t have a choice, and besides, maybe the Americans would be n
