Chapter 69

More than being a mother and a friend, mom taught me a lot too. One subject she particularly liked was human nature. When I asked her about the strangeness of our neighbor, she told me that humans by nature were good. Sometimes it could be a biological reaction of the body, or the accumulation of bad experience that made people react a certain way. In the case of my neighbor, mom advised me to see past the strangeness and focus on the positive traits.

While I tried to live by that...