“As a child I believed I was happy, but I don’t know if I was happy because I was told I was, or if I truly was. My happiness was prescribed, and it came with operating instructions: solidarity, collective life, optimism. The dosage? Take some every hour for twelve hours a day and every hour for twelve hours a night.”
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The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea
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