I was born at 오전 9시 12분. I weighed 3.0 kilograms, or 6 pounds and 3 ounces. I received the polio, smallpox, measles, and diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) vaccinations when I was a baby.
This information may not seem very important to many people. But it is for me.
Unlike many others I know, I don't have to wonder if my birthday is my real date of birth. I even know the exact time I was born and where.
Amazingly, I have my birth tag and immunization records. My 이모, maternal aunt, gave them to me while I was in Korea.
I also know that I was loved dearly -- and wanted. Like my birth date, this much I know is true, without a doubt.
The random and not-so-random thoughts of a Korean-American, 30-something copy editor as she rambles and babbles through life, enforcing rules of punctuation, grammar and capitalization.
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생일 (how do you say 'belated' in Korean?) 축하해요!
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