CHAPTER 15
You might think after reading this so far that I spent all day sleeping in the train station and all night staying warm by the fire, except there was more to it than that. I went outside, too, because even when it’s cold, you gotta have quiet time to yourself with just your own thoughts, and you don’t get much noisier than that train station unless you’re in the back of the bus going on a field trip like we did to the art museum last fall. So I’d take myself on walks if I weren’t too hungry-weak, and sometimes I’d go visit the statue of the Dear Leader at the school just to see if he’d ever look at me like he done that one night and make me feel so cozy, except he didn’t.
Sometimes I’d walk toward the part of Chongjin where Granny lived, and if I felt really brave, I’d go righ
