40 years later.
When the police pulled 5-year Pok-nam Shin out of school, the little girl who now goes by Holly Hoyle O’Brien asked the only question that mattered: Where’s my daddy?
Her mother had died without leaving Pok-nam a single memory. Dad was all she had. He was an alcoholic who ran a grocery store and gave her money instead of affection. He had remarried but it didn’t last. One night, while he slept, Pok-nam awoke and peered in silence as her stepmother gathered Pok-nam’s younger half-sister, Eun-Sook, and made their getaway. They never returned.
The officer escorted the tyke to his car and drove her to where it happened. Dad had wandered into the path of a speeding train; Pok-nam’s job was to identify the body. She looked closely, and would never forget what she saw. As the distracted cops milled about the site, Pok-nam took off running. Her meandering path led to an orphanage in her native Pusan, South Korea.
For the next few years, the child without a family was treated kindly amid the company of strangers. MORE>
When the police pulled 5-year Pok-nam Shin out of school, the little girl who now goes by Holly Hoyle O’Brien asked the only question that mattered: Where’s my daddy?
Her mother had died without leaving Pok-nam a single memory. Dad was all she had. He was an alcoholic who ran a grocery store and gave her money instead of affection. He had remarried but it didn’t last. One night, while he slept, Pok-nam awoke and peered in silence as her stepmother gathered Pok-nam’s younger half-sister, Eun-Sook, and made their getaway. They never returned.
The officer escorted the tyke to his car and drove her to where it happened. Dad had wandered into the path of a speeding train; Pok-nam’s job was to identify the body. She looked closely, and would never forget what she saw. As the distracted cops milled about the site, Pok-nam took off running. Her meandering path led to an orphanage in her native Pusan, South Korea.
For the next few years, the child without a family was treated kindly amid the company of strangers. MORE>