[Riley's uncertainty crumbles. When he puts it like that...
He starts brushing his thumbs up and down on Deacon's back.] Well... My dad's an immigrant. [Present tense. ... he still hasn't shaken that.] He came over from South Korea for his job, and then decided to stay after he met my mom. My mom and Zetta's mom were already friends from college, so that's why we grew up together.
My dad's family never came to the States, so I never got to meet them. He had sisters, and they had kids of their own. [Cousins he never got to meet, only ever saw in photographs.] But my mom's family was local. My grandfather babysat me a lot when I was young, because my parents worked a lot.
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He starts brushing his thumbs up and down on Deacon's back.] Well... My dad's an immigrant. [Present tense. ... he still hasn't shaken that.] He came over from South Korea for his job, and then decided to stay after he met my mom. My mom and Zetta's mom were already friends from college, so that's why we grew up together.
My dad's family never came to the States, so I never got to meet them. He had sisters, and they had kids of their own. [Cousins he never got to meet, only ever saw in photographs.] But my mom's family was local. My grandfather babysat me a lot when I was young, because my parents worked a lot.