This is #1 of the 100 Theme Challenge.
Introduction

The text is written as if it were to be read in Korean, from right to left, top to bottom.

If I am wrong on this, please correct me...this is how I recall my mother explaining to me how she read her Korean Newspaper.

I honestly wasn't sure where I should categorize this, so if anyone has a better idea of what category it goes into, I would appreciate it!

I got this picture of a doorway because it reminded me of possibly being under a bridge type structure, I do not know if that was what this was or not.
I got this beautiful picture from:
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I added a texture aptly named "Memory" by:
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The text is...well it's an introduction of me to the world.


The text in a more readable format:
The flies are buzzing on this August day, around an elderly Korean woman sitting underneath a bridge. This is where she lives. There is a basket the flies are hovering around. A newborn baby is inside the basket crying.

A woman, Korean by birth, American by marriage, walks the streets of Korea getting the final preparations to bring her family over to the states. She walks by the elderly woman who recognizes her as an American. The elderly woman tugs on the woman’s clothing as she passes.

“lease, take her. There is no life for her here.”, the elderly Korean woman says as she pulls the basket towards the American Korean. “Look, her eyes.” She points out the baby’s eyes are hazel, not brown like a full Korean’s would be. A half-breed baby, even after the war in Korea was over, was not safe and could be killed.

This barren woman, who would never be able to have her own child, takes the baby and gives the elderly Korean woman a little money. She takes the baby to the hospital to pay a doctor to make out a birth certificate claiming she gave birth to the child. She pays a lawyer to help out with this.

The baby has tuberculosis and underdeveloped lungs and is hospitalized for a month before they can get her into the states. The woman calls her American husband to inform him he now has a daughter. His American family tells him not to let her bring the baby. He loves his wife and won’t deny her. He is a father now.

The new mother of the baby decides to name her “Jewel” like in jewelry. For to her, this baby is a precious jewel that she had been denied before. There is a misunderstanding so the name on the birth certificate reads “Judy”, instead.