“Mrs. Park, I regret to inform you that Catherine has Retinitis Pigmentosa. Your daughter is going blind.”

                -Optometrist to my mother

“She’s so young. She’s only 10 what are we going to do?”

                -My mother crying to my father

“Let her live how she wants while she can still see.”

                -My father to my sobbing mother

“So Sam wants to work at his father’s law firm. Catherine, what do you want to do when you grow up?”

                -Mrs. Allen, my 4^th grade teacher asking the entire class what kind of jobs we wanted to do when we got older.

“I want to move to South Korea and work as a model like my mother used to.”

                -Me, Catherine

My mother worried about me constantly but accepted my condition as it was and promised me that she would help me with any of my dreams to the best of her abilities.