The Stranger in My Mother's Eyes
Language: en
I was chatting enthusiastically with my classmate from Germany when Mom suddenly chimed in: "What are you talking about?" I froze. Mom was indeed a housewife. But in her youth, she had spent five years in Germany. Her German was even more fluent than mine. Yet she couldn't recognize that I had just called her name. Was she really my mother? 1. No one knew that Mom had lived in Germany—no one except me. When I decided to study abroad in Germany, I started learning German in advance. There was one word I kept mispronouncing no matter how many times I tried. While trimming…