Reflections/Recollections
**This entry will be a bit long, and it’s more personal than the rest of the posts here (aside from perhaps my recommendations), so do not feel in debt to read this entry. Nonetheless, if you’d like to hear a bit of my story/my roots, I humbly invite you to read on. ^^;;v
I remember the day my sister’s friend lent her a copy of What I Did For Love by Val. The fic had been placed in a yellow manilla folder to keep it in good condition since it was being passed from one person to the next in their group of friends. My sister retreated to her room, where I found her crying later in the day, sobbing over the sad love story. Back then, neither of us knew what a fic was, though her friends were major HOT and Shinhwa fans (since we live on the east coast, many of them had made a trip to one of the Flushing concerts back in the day; I remember one also skipped school and went to a DC concert as well—very daring girl for a 7th grader :P) I remember hearing about a “bird” named Kangta and a hottie “gangster” named Minwoo, but I didn’t care to join the older girls in their fangirly ways—I also didn’t care to take a peek at the story that had brought my sister to tears. That is, I didn’t care yet. [Excerpt]
