7: The reality of growing up in an immigrant family

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Hey guys, welcome back to another episode.I'm on the floor with a very special guest. I have my good friend Yvonne Cha,Hi guys. I'm Yvonne I am 95 and I am five one. Okay, wait and a dating show tooptions. I just like people knew where to stand in order to make eye contactover the podcast.

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You know, just visualize my yeah. Okay. No.The surface area. Just kidding. Exciting stop. I I work in publishing. I editbooks and I'm currently working on a Korean novel that it's being translatedinto English. Wait, are you writing two novels? So I'm writing my own novel andthen I'm editing a novel for work, okay?

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Because yes, my day job is a as an editorand then my life project project. Yeah. My passion project I guess is my novel.It's about a Korean girl who grows up in Queens flushing Queens. Y'all fromflushing queens. Hello, Tom. Yes, that's where I grew up. Yeah, it's about thislittle girl who grows up in Flushing Queens and then one morning, she wakes upand both of her.

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Parents are gone and she goes to churchlooking for them. And yeah. How far along are you? I've been working on thissince undergrad. So I guess it's been eight years. Wow. I mean, on and off, Iworked on a chunk of it in grad school, but so it's like fictional but basedon?

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Yes, it's auto Christian. Okay, yeah, it'spretty much my life story. But for the sake of selling it, it's got to be anovel in the street, New York City. We've I think that's so fitting because Iactually ask you. If, for today's episode we could kind of share about ourexperiences growing up as a Korean American like you growing up in Queens andand I grew up in Oregon and LA I guess so.

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Yeah. Like our experiences we're verydifferent problem. If this is something that I actually get asked a lot likesurprisingly, I think after dating the Korean American, experience is like, themost asked questions that's so interesting, right? I was really, yeah, mostpeople who are asking, they want to know just like our experience growing upand what that was like, how we navigated it was it I think I think people arejust like looking for a connection you know, and like wanting to relate andfeel like, oh I'm not alone in this.

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And I think that's kind of the point ofthis podcast too. I realized there's a lot of people are just looking forsomeone to like relate to them you know and kind of feel heard and understand.I feel like growing up I was always looking for that too. Hmm.