Does it ever bother you?

"Does it ever bother you?" Martha said. "That you live in, and are now a citizen of, the country that bombed you first?"

[Khit] said she didn't think about it as much anymore. She didn't want to. They got out. They lived.

She said, "I think of my son. What kind of life he will have. Whether he will ride a bicycle or play baseball. Whether he will have a family of his own one day. Whether he will be happy and healthy and safe, and whether he will carry in him the sadness I carry. I think always of my mother, my biological mother, and whether she died alone."

~~ from Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon