1. A boy named Sam.
2. Sam is five years old.
3. Sam's birthday is on July 15.
4. Sam was born in the year 2018.
5. Sam is three feet and five inches tall.
6. Sam weighs forty pounds.
7. His hair is brown.
8. Sam's hair is straight and short.
9. His eyes are blue.
10. Sam is white.
11. Sam's mom is named Lily.
12. Lily is twenty-five years old.
13. Lily's birthday is on February 8.
14. Lily was born in the year 1998.
15. Lily is five feet and six inches tall.
16. Lily weighs one hundred and twenty pounds.
17. Her hair is blond.
18. Lily's hair is long and curly.
19. Her eyes are green.
20. Sam's grandma is named Rose.
21. Rose is forty-five years old.
22. Rose's birthday is on October 22.
23. Rose was born in the year 1978.
24. Rose is five feet and four inches tall.
25. Rose weighs one hundred and thirty pounds.
26. Her hair is gray.
27. Rose's hair is short and wavy.
28. Her eyes are brown.
29. Sam is going to get a haircut.
30. Sam is going alone.
31. Sam has permission from his mom.
32. Lily gave Sam money for the haircut.
33. Five Korean women work in the salon.
34. The first woman is named Mi-young.
35. Mi-young is fifty-five years old.
36. Her birthday is on March 10.
37. She was born in the year 1968.
38. Mi-young is five feet tall.
39. She weighs one hundred and ten pounds.
40. Her hair is black and styled in a bob cut.
41. Her eyes are black.
42. Mi-young wears a blue blouse.
43. The blue blouse has white flowers.
44. Mi-young has on black shorts.
45. Her shorts have small pockets.
46. Mi-young wears red platform sandals.
47. Her sandals have silver buckles.
48. Mi-youngโs nails are painted pink.
49. Mi-young wears five pieces of jewelry.
50. She wears a wedding ring.
51. Mi-young wears a gold bracelet.
52. She wears pearl earrings.
53. Mi-young wears a silver necklace.
54. She wears a diamond ring.
55. The second woman is named Seo-jin.
56. Seo-jin is sixty years old.
57. Her birthday is on April 5.
58. She was born in the year 1963.
59. Seo-jin is four feet and ten inches tall.
60. She weighs one hundred pounds.
61. Her hair is brown and styled in a pixie cut.
62. Her eyes are brown.
63. Seo-jin wears a green blouse.
64. The green blouse has gold buttons.
65. Seo-jin has on blue skirt.
66. Her skirt has lace trim.
67. Seo-jin wears black platform sandals.
68. Her sandals have flower designs.
69. Seo-jin's nails are painted red.
70. Seo-jin wears five pieces of jewelry.
71. She wears a wedding ring.
72. Seo-jin wears a silver bracelet.
73. She wears diamond earrings.
74. Seo-jin wears a gold necklace.
75. She wears a sapphire ring.
76. The third woman is named Ji-hyun.
77. Ji-hyun is fifty-two years old.
78. Her birthday is on December 1.
79. She was born in the year 1971.
80. Ji-hyun is four feet and nine inches tall.
81. She weighs ninety-five pounds.
82. Her hair is black and styled in a pixie cut.
83. Her eyes are black.
84. Ji-hyun wears a red blouse.
85. The red blouse has black stripes.
86. Ji-hyun has on white shorts.
87. Her shorts have a zipper.
88. Ji-hyun wears silver platform sandals.
89. Her sandals have glitter.
90. Ji-hyun's nails are painted blue.
91. Ji-hyun wears five pieces of jewelry.
92. She wears a wedding ring.
93. Ji-hyun wears an anklet.
94. She wears pearl earrings.
95. Ji-hyun wears a beaded necklace.
96. She wears a ruby ring.
97. The fourth woman is named Eun-kyung.
98. Eun-kyung is sixty-five years old.
99. Her birthday is on June 25.
100. She was born in the year 1957.
101. Eun-kyung is four feet and eight inches tall.
102. She weighs ninety pounds.
103. Her hair is gray and styled in a bob cut.
104. Her eyes are green.
105. Eun-kyung wears a yellow blouse.
106. The yellow blouse has purple dots.
107. Eun-kyung has on brown shorts.
108. Her shorts have a belt.
109. Eun-kyung wears gold platform sandals.
110. Her sandals have tassels.
111. Eun-kyung's nails are painted green.
112. Eun-kyung wears five pieces of jewelry.
113. She wears a wedding ring.
114. Eun-kyung wears a gold bracelet.
115. She wears silver earrings.
116. Eun-kyung wears a jade necklace.
117. She wears an emerald ring.
118. The fifth woman is named Hye-jin.
119. Hye-jin is sixty-eight years old.
120. Her birthday is on January 12.
121. She was born in the year 1955.
122. Hye-jin is four feet and eleven inches tall.
123. She weighs one hundred and five pounds.
124. Her hair is brown and styled in a bob cut.
125. Her eyes are blue.
126. Hye-jin wears a purple blouse.
127. The purple blouse has silver stars.
128. Hye-jin has on pink skirt.
129. Her skirt has ruffles.
130. Hye-jin wears white platform sandals.
131. Her sandals have tiny bows.
132. Hye-jin's nails are painted purple.
133. Hye-jin wears five pieces of jewelry.
134. She wears a wedding ring.
135. Hye-jin wears a charm bracelet.
136. She wears hoop earrings.
137. Hye-jin wears a coral necklace.
138. She wears an opal ring.
139. The women speak in Korean.
140. "์ด๋ค ์๋
์ด ์๋ค." - "There is a boy."
141. "๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์๋ค." - "He came here."
142. Sam sees the oldest woman.
143. Eun-kyung is the oldest.
144. Eun-kyung thumps towards Sam.
145. She motions to a chair.
146. Eun-kyung says hello.
147. "ํํจ. ๋ฌด์ ์?" - "Hi. What wan-ted?"
148. Sam responds quietly.
149. "I want a haircut, please."
150. Eun-kyung says okay.
151. She grabs a quilt.
152. Sam quietly waits.
153. He looks at her feet.
154. He looks at her nails.
155. He looks at her wedding ring.
156. Eun-kyung speaks to her friends.
157. "๊ทธ ์๋
์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ฌ๋์ค๋ฌ์." - "That boy is very cute."
158. Ji-hyun responds.
159. "๋๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ์ผํด." - "You should switch bodies with him."
160. Eun-kyung smiles.
161. "์ ๊ณ ์ถ์ด. ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ฉด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋ค." - "I'd love to be young again. Imagine him trying to walk in these shoes."
162. All her friends laugh.
163. "์์ฃผ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋ค!" - "That would be so much fun!"
164. "์์ฒญ ์๊ธด ์ผ์ด์ผ!" - "That's hilarious!"
165. "์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์์ด๋์ด์ผ!" - "That's a great idea!"
166. Hye-jin jokes.
167. "์์ด ๋งํ๊ธฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋นผ์์์ผํด." - "Just take away his ability to speak English."
168. Eun-kyung nods.
169. She heads to the back.
170. She bends down.
171. She adjusts her platform sandals.
172. Eun-kyung smiles to herself.
173. "์ค๋นํด๋ด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค." - "I should prepare."
174. She smiles.
175. "์ด๋ ธ์ ๋ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ์ง ๊ธฐ๋๋ผ." - "I'm excited to take his childhood."
176. Eun-kyung heads out to Sam.
177. She lies to him.
178. "์ด๋ค ๊ฑฐ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ํผ." - "I got somethin' to show you."
179. Two friends block the door.
180. Eun-kyung switches bodies with Sam.
181. He gets dizzy.
182. His vision is lost.
183. Sam opens his eyes.
184. He realizes he is taller.
185. He looks down at the blouse.
186. He sees shorts.
187. He sees platform sandals.
188. He sees jewelry.
189. He looks up at the mirror.
190. Sam yells.
191. "์ ๋ ์ฌ์์ผ! ์๋ง, ํ ๋จธ๋!" - "Why am I a girl? I want mommy! I want grandma!"
192. Friends tell him.
193. "์ ๋ฆฌ ์์ํด." - "Get over it and start cleaning."
194. They hand him a broom.
195. They hand him a dustpan.
196. "์ ์ถ์ ๋ฏธ์ฉ์ค์์ ์ผํ๋ ์ถ์ด์ผ." - "Your new life is working at the salon."
197. "์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ณด๋ค ์ค์ํด." - "Our friend is more important than you."
198. "์ฌ์๊ฐ ๋๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ์ฌํด์ผํด." - "You should be happy you get to be a woman."
199. Time passes.
200. Sam asks to swap back.
201. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์์ด?" - "Can we swap back?"
202. "๋ค." - "Yes."
203. He feels happy.
204. They snap fingers.
205. He feels a tingle.
206. He sees a flash.
207. He sees himself as a little Korean girl.
208. Sam speaks.
209. "๋ ๋ญํ์ด?" - "What did you do?"
210. Friends laugh.
211. "๋์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ์์ด." - "We are erasing your memories."
212. "๊ณง ์์ด๋ฅผ ์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งํ ์ ์์ด." - "You will be able to speak very limited English."
213. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ก ๋ณด์ผ ๋." - "You will see us as your friends."
214. "๊ฑฐ์ธ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ธ์ํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๋." - "You will recognize the reflection in the mirror."
215. Memories change.
216. She remembers being a woman.
217. She blinks calmly.
218. She adjusts her posture.
219. "์ ๋ง์ง๋ง 20๋ถ์ด ๊ธฐ์ต๋์ง ์์๊น?" - "Why is the last 20 minutes missing from my memory?"
220. She asks where the boy went.
221. Friends lie.
222. "์ค๋ ์๋ฌด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ ์์์ด." - "We haven't had a customer all day."
223. She pulls out her cellphone.
224. "๋น๋์ค ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์ ๊ฐ์ค." - "Take me to a video website."
225. She starts watching them.
226. She laughs in her usual way.
227. The salon phone rings.
228. She thumps quickly.
229. She trips over her feet.
230. "์์, ์ง์ฆ๋๊ฒ!" - "Ugh, frustrating!"
231. She calmly answers.
232. "ํํจ, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์์ค ์ ์์ป ์ดใ
์?" - "Hello, how can I help yuo?"
233. "Sorry, English not goode."
234. "I give yu haircut."
235. "Pleaze come inside."
236. "We hav many styles."
237. She never remembers her old life.
238. She thinks this is who she always was.
239. She knows how to cut hair.
240. She has been married to her husband for 32 years.
241. She learned styling before her friends.
242. Korean culture is all she knows.
243. Her English is broken.
244. She prefers speaking Korean.
245. Time comes to close up.
246. She walked to work.
247. She walks home as night approaches.
248. "์ ๊ฐ!" - "Goodbye!"
249. It becomes quiet.
250. She clutches her purse.
251. She hears the thump of her platforms.
252. She steadies her breathing.
253. She feels a hand on her shoulder.
254. "์ผ์
!" - "Ah!"
255. She jerks around.
256. She decides to walk faster.
257. She remembers a Korean urban legend.
258. She whispers to herself.
259. "์ฐจ์ฅ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผ์จ." โ "Charokbariya-ssi."
260. The street is empty.
261. Shadows dance with the wind.
262. She walks past old stores.
263. Neon lights flicker.
264. Cars zoom by occasionally.
265. Her heart thumps loudly.
266. She can smell the night air.
267. "์ด๊ฑฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฌด์ญ๋ค." โ "This is a bit scary."
268. She shivers slightly.
269. A cat meows in the alley.
270. She steps on a leaf.
271. Her foot slides slightly.
272. She reaches a corner.
273. She halts.
274. Looking around, she finds the road silent.
275. "๋๋ ์์๊ฐ ํ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค." โ "I think I took a wrong turn."
276. Her pulse quickens.
277. "์ฐจ์ฅ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผ์จ ํ ์ ์์ด." โ "Charokbariya-ssi can't be real."
278. Feeling brave, she whispers again.
279. "์์ฃผ ์ด์ํด." โ "Very strange."
280. "์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๊ฑธ์ด์ผ ํด." โ "I need to walk a bit more."
281. Lights glimmer at a distance.
282. She keeps her gaze straight.
283. Each step is cautious.
284. Houses line the road.
285. She sees a flicker above.
286. "ํ๋์ด ๋ฐ๋ค." โ "The sky is bright."
287. She spots her house nearby.
288. Relief floods her system.
289. "๊ฑฐ์ ์ง์ด์ผ." โ "Almost home."
290. She quickens her pace.
291. Passing the garden lights.
292. Fumbled keys in hand.
293. "์์ !" โ "Safe!"
294. She unlocks the door.
295. Warmth envelops her.
296. Stepping inside, she sighs.
297. "์ค๋ ๋ฐค ๋ฌด์ฌํ๋ค." โ "Safe tonight."
298. Memories safe and snug.
299. She rests contentedly.
300. Secure in her quiet world.
This story was generated by user manemansteve2 with assistance by one of OpenAIโs large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.
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Prompt: A long and thorough and detailed 300 sentences story in very simple small words in a formatted list of 1 to 300 about a boy with a detailed description of the boy's name, age being very young, birthday, birth year, height, weight, hair color and style and eye color and race being white. Include his mom's name, age being young, birthday, birth year, height, weight, hair color and style and eye color. Include his grandma's name, age being young, birthday, birth year, height, weight, hair color and style and eye color. Have him be at the going to get his haircut alone for the first time with permission from his mom who gave him money for it. Have him walk in and have him see 5 Korean women all doing different tasks in the salon. Include the 5 Korean women's names, ages being in their early 50s-late 60s, birthdays, birth years, heights being shorter, weights, hair colors and styles being pixie or bob cut and eye colors and have them all be wearing blouses with detailed descriptions of the blouses and shorts and shorts skirts with detailed descriptions of the shorts and shorts skirts and platform sandals with detailed descriptions of the platform sandals and have their nails be painted and include the colors and have them be wearing 5 pieces of jewelry each in a formatted list of 1 to 25 including wedding rings. Have them be having a conversation in Korean with each other and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean and English. Have the oldest one thump towards the boy and motion to a chair and include which one it was. Have her say hello and have it be in quoted text asking what he wanted in broken English spelling words wrong. Have him respond quietly and have it be in quoted text. Have the woman say okay and grab a quilt. Have him quietly wait as she cut his hair and have him look at her feet and her nails and her wedding ring. Have her speak to her friends in Korean about the boy and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean and English. Have one of them respond to her saying she should switch bodies with him and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have her smile saying I'd love to be young again imagine him trying to walk around in these shoes and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean and English. Have all her friends laugh and joke in Korean and have it all be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean and English. Have one friend say just make sure you take away his ability to speak English he can't tell his mom the truth if he only speaks Korean and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have her not and head to the back. Have her bend down adjusting her platform sandals on her feet. Have her smile to herself as she prepared to switch bodies with the boy and said something to herself in Korean and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean and English. Have her smile at the prospect of taking the boy's childhood as she headed back out to the boy and lied and told him she had something to show him and have it be in quoted text in broken English spelling words wrong as 2 friends moved to block the door. Have her aggressively switch bodies with the boy causing him to get dizzy losing his vision momentarily. Have him open his eyes realizing he was taller and have him look down seeing the blouse and shorts and platform sandals and the jewelry before looking up at the mirror before yelling what the heck why am I a girl I want mommy I want grandma and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have the friends tell him to get over it and start cleaning and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean handing him a broom and dust pan. Have them tell him his new life is working at the salon and their friend is more important than him and he should be happy he gets to be a woman since some people wish they could be one and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have a little time pass and have the boy ask to swap back and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have them tell him yes and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have him get happy when they snapped their fingers and he felt a tingle and he saw a flash of himself as a little Korean girl and have him say what did you do and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have them laugh and tell him we're erasing your memories sweetie you'll have no memory of who you used to be and you'll be able to speak very limited English soon you'll see us as your friends and the young female and male customers as young men and young women and you will look in the mirror and recognize the reflection you have now as the one you've had since you were a little girl and the voice you have won't scare you and the blouse and shorts and platform sandals you're wearing will be what you remember putting on this morning as well as YOUR jewelry you shouldn't have come here little one and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean only as his memories changed until he only remembered being a woman. Have her blink calmly and adjust her posture before speaking to her friends in confusion and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean wondering why the last 20 minutes was missing from her memory before asking where the boy went. Have them lie and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean telling her they haven't had a customer all day. Have her pull out her cellphone and use voice command and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in only Korean taking her to a video website with Korean videos and have her start watching them laughing in the way she always did. Have the salon phone ring and have her softly but quickly thump tripping over her feet getting frustrated and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in only Korean. Have her calm down loudly answering the phone in broken English and have it be in quoted text spelling words wrong as she struggled to communicate with the customer in a formatted list of 1 to 5 being detailed. Have her never remember her old life and have her think this was who she always was not needing to learn anything cause she had known how to cut hair for years and had been married to her husband for 32 years and had learn how to style and detail before some of her friends did and Korean culture was all she knew the only thing was her English was the most broken out of the 5 women but she preferred speaking Korean anyway. Have it come time to close up and have her have decided today to walk to work and walk home as nighttime approached and have her say goodbye to all her friends and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have it become eerily quiet as she clutched her purse and realize the only sound she could hear was the thump of her platform sandals. Have her steady her breathing when she felt a hand on her shoulder and jerked around yelling and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean. Have her decide to walk faster as she remembered a Korean urban legend her mom and dad told her about as she calmly whispered to herself and have it be in quoted text in Korean shown in Korean saying the name of the urban legend. Continue the story from here.
Response: 1. A boy named Sam. 2. Sam is five years old. 3. Sam's birthday is on July 15. 4. Sam was born in the year 2018. 5. Sam is three feet and five inches tall. 6. Sam weighs forty pounds. 7. His hair is brown. 8. Sam's hair is straight and short. 9. His eyes are blue. 10. Sam is white. 11. Sam's mom is named Lily. 12. Lily is twenty-five years old. 13. Lily's birthday is on February 8. 14. Lily was born in the year 1998. 15. Lily is five feet and six inches tall. 16. Lily weighs one hundred and twenty pounds. 17. Her hair is blond. 18. Lily's hair is long and curly. 19. Her eyes are green. 20. Sam's grandma is named Rose. 21. Rose is forty-five years old. 22. Rose's birthday is on October 22. 23. Rose was born in the year 1978. 24. Rose is five feet and four inches tall. 25. Rose weighs one hundred and thirty pounds. 26. Her hair is gray. 27. Rose's hair is short and wavy. 28. Her eyes are brown. 29. Sam is going to get a haircut. 30. Sam is going alone. 31. Sam has permission from his mom. 32. Lily gave Sam money for the haircut. 33. Five Korean women work in the salon. 34. The first woman is named Mi-young. 35. Mi-young is fifty-five years old. 36. Her birthday is on March 10. 37. She was born in the year 1968. 38. Mi-young is five feet tall. 39. She weighs one hundred and ten pounds. 40. Her hair is black and styled in a bob cut. 41. Her eyes are black. 42. Mi-young wears a blue blouse. 43. The blue blouse has white flowers. 44. Mi-young has on black shorts. 45. Her shorts have small pockets. 46. Mi-young wears red platform sandals. 47. Her sandals have silver buckles. 48. Mi-youngโs nails are painted pink. 49. Mi-young wears five pieces of jewelry. 50. She wears a wedding ring. 51. Mi-young wears a gold bracelet. 52. She wears pearl earrings. 53. Mi-young wears a silver necklace. 54. She wears a diamond ring. 55. The second woman is named Seo-jin. 56. Seo-jin is sixty years old. 57. Her birthday is on April 5. 58. She was born in the year 1963. 59. Seo-jin is four feet and ten inches tall. 60. She weighs one hundred pounds. 61. Her hair is brown and styled in a pixie cut. 62. Her eyes are brown. 63. Seo-jin wears a green blouse. 64. The green blouse has gold buttons. 65. Seo-jin has on blue skirt. 66. Her skirt has lace trim. 67. Seo-jin wears black platform sandals. 68. Her sandals have flower designs. 69. Seo-jin's nails are painted red. 70. Seo-jin wears five pieces of jewelry. 71. She wears a wedding ring. 72. Seo-jin wears a silver bracelet. 73. She wears diamond earrings. 74. Seo-jin wears a gold necklace. 75. She wears a sapphire ring. 76. The third woman is named Ji-hyun. 77. Ji-hyun is fifty-two years old. 78. Her birthday is on December 1. 79. She was born in the year 1971. 80. Ji-hyun is four feet and nine inches tall. 81. She weighs ninety-five pounds. 82. Her hair is black and styled in a pixie cut. 83. Her eyes are black. 84. Ji-hyun wears a red blouse. 85. The red blouse has black stripes. 86. Ji-hyun has on white shorts. 87. Her shorts have a zipper. 88. Ji-hyun wears silver platform sandals. 89. Her sandals have glitter. 90. Ji-hyun's nails are painted blue. 91. Ji-hyun wears five pieces of jewelry. 92. She wears a wedding ring. 93. Ji-hyun wears an anklet. 94. She wears pearl earrings. 95. Ji-hyun wears a beaded necklace. 96. She wears a ruby ring. 97. The fourth woman is named Eun-kyung. 98. Eun-kyung is sixty-five years old. 99. Her birthday is on June 25. 100. She was born in the year 1957. 101. Eun-kyung is four feet and eight inches tall. 102. She weighs ninety pounds. 103. Her hair is gray and styled in a bob cut. 104. Her eyes are green. 105. Eun-kyung wears a yellow blouse. 106. The yellow blouse has purple dots. 107. Eun-kyung has on brown shorts. 108. Her shorts have a belt. 109. Eun-kyung wears gold platform sandals. 110. Her sandals have tassels. 111. Eun-kyung's nails are painted green. 112. Eun-kyung wears five pieces of jewelry. 113. She wears a wedding ring. 114. Eun-kyung wears a gold bracelet. 115. She wears silver earrings. 116. Eun-kyung wears a jade necklace. 117. She wears an emerald ring. 118. The fifth woman is named Hye-jin. 119. Hye-jin is sixty-eight years old. 120. Her birthday is on January 12. 121. She was born in the year 1955. 122. Hye-jin is four feet and eleven inches tall. 123. She weighs one hundred and five pounds. 124. Her hair is brown and styled in a bob cut. 125. Her eyes are blue. 126. Hye-jin wears a purple blouse. 127. The purple blouse has silver stars. 128. Hye-jin has on pink skirt. 129. Her skirt has ruffles. 130. Hye-jin wears white platform sandals. 131. Her sandals have tiny bows. 132. Hye-jin's nails are painted purple. 133. Hye-jin wears five pieces of jewelry. 134. She wears a wedding ring. 135. Hye-jin wears a charm bracelet. 136. She wears hoop earrings. 137. Hye-jin wears a coral necklace. 138. She wears an opal ring. 139. The women speak in Korean. 140. "์ด๋ค ์๋ ์ด ์๋ค." - "There is a boy." 141. "๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์๋ค." - "He came here." 142. Sam sees the oldest woman. 143. Eun-kyung is the oldest. 144. Eun-kyung thumps towards Sam. 145. She motions to a chair. 146. Eun-kyung says hello. 147. "ํํจ. ๋ฌด์ ์?" - "Hi. What wan-ted?" 148. Sam responds quietly. 149. "I want a haircut, please." 150. Eun-kyung says okay. 151. She grabs a quilt. 152. Sam quietly waits. 153. He looks at her feet. 154. He looks at her nails. 155. He looks at her wedding ring. 156. Eun-kyung speaks to her friends. 157. "๊ทธ ์๋ ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ฌ๋์ค๋ฌ์." - "That boy is very cute." 158. Ji-hyun responds. 159. "๋๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ๋ชธ๊ณผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ์ผํด." - "You should switch bodies with him." 160. Eun-kyung smiles. 161. "์ ๊ณ ์ถ์ด. ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ฉด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋ค." - "I'd love to be young again. Imagine him trying to walk in these shoes." 162. All her friends laugh. 163. "์์ฃผ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋ค!" - "That would be so much fun!" 164. "์์ฒญ ์๊ธด ์ผ์ด์ผ!" - "That's hilarious!" 165. "์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์์ด๋์ด์ผ!" - "That's a great idea!" 166. Hye-jin jokes. 167. "์์ด ๋งํ๊ธฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋นผ์์์ผํด." - "Just take away his ability to speak English." 168. Eun-kyung nods. 169. She heads to the back. 170. She bends down. 171. She adjusts her platform sandals. 172. Eun-kyung smiles to herself. 173. "์ค๋นํด๋ด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค." - "I should prepare." 174. She smiles. 175. "์ด๋ ธ์ ๋ ๋ถ์ฌ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ์ง ๊ธฐ๋๋ผ." - "I'm excited to take his childhood." 176. Eun-kyung heads out to Sam. 177. She lies to him. 178. "์ด๋ค ๊ฑฐ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ํผ." - "I got somethin' to show you." 179. Two friends block the door. 180. Eun-kyung switches bodies with Sam. 181. He gets dizzy. 182. His vision is lost. 183. Sam opens his eyes. 184. He realizes he is taller. 185. He looks down at the blouse. 186. He sees shorts. 187. He sees platform sandals. 188. He sees jewelry. 189. He looks up at the mirror. 190. Sam yells. 191. "์ ๋ ์ฌ์์ผ! ์๋ง, ํ ๋จธ๋!" - "Why am I a girl? I want mommy! I want grandma!" 192. Friends tell him. 193. "์ ๋ฆฌ ์์ํด." - "Get over it and start cleaning." 194. They hand him a broom. 195. They hand him a dustpan. 196. "์ ์ถ์ ๋ฏธ์ฉ์ค์์ ์ผํ๋ ์ถ์ด์ผ." - "Your new life is working at the salon." 197. "์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ณด๋ค ์ค์ํด." - "Our friend is more important than you." 198. "์ฌ์๊ฐ ๋๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ฐ์ฌํด์ผํด." - "You should be happy you get to be a woman." 199. Time passes. 200. Sam asks to swap back. 201. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชธ์ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์์ด?" - "Can we swap back?" 202. "๋ค." - "Yes." 203. He feels happy. 204. They snap fingers. 205. He feels a tingle. 206. He sees a flash. 207. He sees himself as a little Korean girl. 208. Sam speaks. 209. "๋ ๋ญํ์ด?" - "What did you do?" 210. Friends laugh. 211. "๋์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ์ง์ฐ๊ณ ์์ด." - "We are erasing your memories." 212. "๊ณง ์์ด๋ฅผ ์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งํ ์ ์์ด." - "You will be able to speak very limited English." 213. "์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ก ๋ณด์ผ ๋." - "You will see us as your friends." 214. "๊ฑฐ์ธ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ธ์ํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๋." - "You will recognize the reflection in the mirror." 215. Memories change. 216. She remembers being a woman. 217. She blinks calmly. 218. She adjusts her posture. 219. "์ ๋ง์ง๋ง 20๋ถ์ด ๊ธฐ์ต๋์ง ์์๊น?" - "Why is the last 20 minutes missing from my memory?" 220. She asks where the boy went. 221. Friends lie. 222. "์ค๋ ์๋ฌด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ ์์์ด." - "We haven't had a customer all day." 223. She pulls out her cellphone. 224. "๋น๋์ค ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์ ๊ฐ์ค." - "Take me to a video website." 225. She starts watching them. 226. She laughs in her usual way. 227. The salon phone rings. 228. She thumps quickly. 229. She trips over her feet. 230. "์์, ์ง์ฆ๋๊ฒ!" - "Ugh, frustrating!" 231. She calmly answers. 232. "ํํจ, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋์์ค ์ ์์ป ์ดใ ์?" - "Hello, how can I help yuo?" 233. "Sorry, English not goode." 234. "I give yu haircut." 235. "Pleaze come inside." 236. "We hav many styles." 237. She never remembers her old life. 238. She thinks this is who she always was. 239. She knows how to cut hair. 240. She has been married to her husband for 32 years. 241. She learned styling before her friends. 242. Korean culture is all she knows. 243. Her English is broken. 244. She prefers speaking Korean. 245. Time comes to close up. 246. She walked to work. 247. She walks home as night approaches. 248. "์ ๊ฐ!" - "Goodbye!" 249. It becomes quiet. 250. She clutches her purse. 251. She hears the thump of her platforms. 252. She steadies her breathing. 253. She feels a hand on her shoulder. 254. "์ผ์ !" - "Ah!" 255. She jerks around. 256. She decides to walk faster. 257. She remembers a Korean urban legend. 258. She whispers to herself. 259. "์ฐจ์ฅ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผ์จ." โ "Charokbariya-ssi." 260. The street is empty. 261. Shadows dance with the wind. 262. She walks past old stores. 263. Neon lights flicker. 264. Cars zoom by occasionally. 265. Her heart thumps loudly. 266. She can smell the night air. 267. "์ด๊ฑฐ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฌด์ญ๋ค." โ "This is a bit scary." 268. She shivers slightly. 269. A cat meows in the alley. 270. She steps on a leaf. 271. Her foot slides slightly. 272. She reaches a corner. 273. She halts. 274. Looking around, she finds the road silent. 275. "๋๋ ์์๊ฐ ํ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค." โ "I think I took a wrong turn." 276. Her pulse quickens. 277. "์ฐจ์ฅ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผ์จ ํ ์ ์์ด." โ "Charokbariya-ssi can't be real." 278. Feeling brave, she whispers again. 279. "์์ฃผ ์ด์ํด." โ "Very strange." 280. "์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๊ฑธ์ด์ผ ํด." โ "I need to walk a bit more." 281. Lights glimmer at a distance. 282. She keeps her gaze straight. 283. Each step is cautious. 284. Houses line the road. 285. She sees a flicker above. 286. "ํ๋์ด ๋ฐ๋ค." โ "The sky is bright." 287. She spots her house nearby. 288. Relief floods her system. 289. "๊ฑฐ์ ์ง์ด์ผ." โ "Almost home." 290. She quickens her pace. 291. Passing the garden lights. 292. Fumbled keys in hand. 293. "์์ !" โ "Safe!" 294. She unlocks the door. 295. Warmth envelops her. 296. Stepping inside, she sighs. 297. "์ค๋ ๋ฐค ๋ฌด์ฌํ๋ค." โ "Safe tonight." 298. Memories safe and snug. 299. She rests contentedly. 300. Secure in her quiet world.
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