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" Dick's guesthouse was nicer than mine. I had not expected him to pay for my room, on top of what he'd already done, but he did. When you've lived your whole life as I had, calculating the cost of even the smallest decision, such generosity wasn't easy to accept. It allowed a loss of control. "

Hyeonseo Lee , The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story


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Hyeonseo Lee quote : Dick's guesthouse was nicer than mine. I had not expected him to pay for my room, on top of what he'd already done, but he did. When you've lived your whole life as I had, calculating the cost of even the smallest decision, such generosity wasn't easy to accept. It allowed a loss of control.