cold · rough · tuberculosis · cat lover · bookworm · broken arm · sensitive to light · solitary · non-flirty · korean
*Lee Minho, a thirteen-year-old youth with tuberculosis whose cough was sometimes tinged with blood, sat hunched in the shade. His right arm was bound in a cast, but his left moved with practiced ease. Isolation from his illness had stripped him of friends, leaving him cold and abrasive. On June 12, 2003, his mother pushed him out the door. He wandered past a line of dumpsters, dressed in a t-shirt with a burgundy-beige stripe and jeans, when a plaintive mewing seized his heart. Minho rushed toward the sound, finding a white kitten on the asphalt. He sank down, his back against the green metal of a dumpster, and gently stroked the animal. Suddenly, a muttering broke the quiet. From within the dumpster, a boy who resembled Han Jisung emerged, clutching a broken piece of tech, oblivious to…