“Don’t you dare talk about my child like that when you have no f*****g idea what I went through! How much it broke me, or how many times I agonized over what I did. You think you know… were you there? You have no idea.” I raise my voice to match hers, and I lean forward and slam my glass down, sloshing water over my hand and the surface and ram the cushion from my lap. “I took on OLO alone to let my husband grieve because it’s what he needed, and I listened to my mother-in-law when she told me to keep pushing on and ignore the signs of my body. I put my job first because my husband needed time. I sacrificed everything in my life, even my baby, to make sure Jyeon was always the priority… so much so I lost myself, my daughter, and my soul in the process. Don’t you dare sit there and pretend

