Hello friends! I tried to use some Korean words in this one. Any one who speaks Korean, please enlighten me if I've misspelt or used the words in the wrong context. :) This is courtesy Google Translate and my memory. :) 

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Jan 2

Seoul

Jeong-hyeok

I really miss you. It's 4 am and I haven't slept for a second. The bed feels so cold, so desolate, so empty without you. I'm saying this as if we ever slept together! I mean, slept slept not the other slept- you know what I mean. Case in point, I'm yearning to have your arms around me so that I can fall asleep with you close to me.

You know what's odd? The first time I slumbered soundly since I can recall was en-route to Pyongyang when our train halted in the middle of nowhere. It was such a chilly night and I was afraid to sleep outside, that too on a bed of corn husk. But then the fire you lit for warmth, the blankets you brought me, and the food you fed me with, I felt like an eight year old being pampered. I never knew this feeling before Ri Jeong-hyeok, and despite my tantrums, you were so sweet about it all. You acted all cold and indifferent, but I knew you cared. Your overcoat covering me and our heads resting on each other that morning was proof enough. What? You thought I didn't know? Michin! I was up before you Jeong-hyeok.

Of late, it all seems like a memory, something which is slipping me by. As if it was all a dream, like I'd imagined everything. How bizzare it is in real life to have accidentally landed in Bukan, of all the places on Earth, and to have met you only to realize we'd met before. That you were the reason behind me starting a new life. Does it not sound as if right out of a fairytale? Facts are indeed stranger than fiction.

This past week, ever since I lost sight of you across the border, I'm trying to hold onto you in desperation, and you just seem to keep flitting away. I feel helpless. And I'm frustrated and exhausted. And I'm hungry. Why did your ancestors have to move all the way from Jeonju to North Korea? Couldn't the Ri clan have settled around here? If there was a time machine, I'd go back and prevent them from moving to Pyongyang. Michin! I sound so crazy to my own self. This is what your absence is doing to me!

Ri Jeong-hyeok, I can't bear it. Please come to me. 

Ri Jeong-hyeok, Saranghaeyo!

Se-ri