CHAPTER 61
It’s not until I hear my aunt’s voice coming down the hospital hallway that I start to feel nervous. I’ve settled into my room in Seattle, and the doctors are finally letting her and Grandma Lucy in.
They’ve been warned, haven’t they? They know how much weight I’ve lost, how weak I am?
It’s funny how many times I’ve imagined this reunion. In my mind, it was always on a tarmac surrounded by the media, not in a hospital room guarded by Feds, but this is the dream that sustained me for the seven months I spent in North Korea. Being with my family again. Being able to wish Grandma Lucy the happy birthday she deserves.
Except now I’m scared.
What if they don’t recognize me? Even worse, what if they think I’m so damaged they whisper and tiptoe and second-guess everything they say
