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My Robotic Legs
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When Ms. Jeong-sook first went to the hospital with her From Sae-jin’s interview Sae-jin was adopted. Ms.
son, Sae-jin, the doctor took a look at his legs and said, Jeong-sook used to do a lot of volunteer work at
“This boy cannot walk. Do you have a lot of money? Then orphanages every day because she loves children. Then
you can try getting him to walk.” Ms. Jeong-sook had to on one fateful day, she met with someone who would
teach her son how to endure taunts and insults before change her entire life. She couldn’t put down the baby
she could feel the joy of her son learning to talk. She had that was smiling up at her in her arms. She began to
to prepare her son for the wounds and pain the world love the child from the bottom of her heart. “Children
will throw in his way. can only come to me. I can’t choose them. Sae-jin
“You are disabled. You may hear people calling you needed me and I guess I was fated to be his mother.”?
names, names far worse than ‘cripple’ or ‘idiot’. What From the mother’s interview During the process of
should you answer when they do? All you have to do is adopting a baby with a disability, she went through a
just say yes.” ? From the mother’s interview “I prayed to divorce. But she still chose Sae-jin. Now, she is training
God every day. I promised to be a good boy who won’t lie Sae-jin to prepare him for the world.
if he would only give me legs and make me a person...” ?
