한국어

After graduation, I dropped formal speech with my teacher for the first time. It felt awkward.

A graduate uses casual speech with their former teacher for the first time, beginning a complicated relationship.

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He laughed, and I mimicked adulthood while secretly wishing to remain forever a student before that laughter.

From then on, I exchanged personal messages with the teacher. Somehow, I felt like I had become someone special.

One day, the teacher contacted me and asked if I wanted to have lunch together.

The teacher chose the meeting place. I dressed as nicely as I could and went out.

It turned out to be a tteokbokki restaurant that the teacher operated, and there I was, dressed impressively, eating tteokbokki.

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