BROKEN VESSEL
“HE SENT FORTH HIS WORD and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.” Psalm 107:20
As you read my words, beloved daughter, I pray that you are living in safety, with nothing to cause you excessive pain or fear. You have no need to know everything I suffered during my second stay in the underground detainment center, so I will recount only a few important details.
After Mee-Kyong’s betrayal, I was taken directly to the underground chambers and locked in a small box. The sleep I managed to find was haunted with nightmares of my father’s torturer, whom I never saw during my second detainment but whose menacing laugh still echoed in the concrete walls.
I was finally let out of my cage and made to sign a statement confessing to my numerous crimes: sleeping with a guard, ta
