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25 years later…
"So you're Kim Minjae's daughter?" The tall, burly man, who must be uncle Jongin, asks her with affection. The other much shorter man standing beside him, who must be uncle Kyungsoo, opens the door wide for her to get inside the house.
She steps inside feeling welcomed, just as her father told her. He said they would welcome her if they knew whose daughter she is. "Yes uncle Jongin. My name is Sohee. I'm studying history just like you." She smiles up at both of them.
"You've grown so much! I can't believe it," uncle Jongin says with a smile. He seems like a good man just like her father told her.
"So you're here to take my interview as a war veteran?"
She nods her head. "Also, if you don't mind I'd like to interview uncle Kyungsoo too. I've heard he was a witness of pro-communist militant attack on the POW camp of Koje-Do where both you and my father were posted as guards. Am I right?" When uncle Jongin nods his head with an impressed look she feels proud of herself as she's done her homework well.
"But I can give you consent for my interview only. For Kyungsoo you'll have to ask him yourself, okay?"
Just as she nods her head, uncle Kyungsoo arrives at the drawing room with a plate full of cookies in hand. Aside from jointly owning a book-store chain in Seoul with uncle Jongin, uncle Kyungsoo owns a bakery called Mr. Egghead. She personally finds the name really cute, just as cute as the shorter uncle.
In between the questions and answers Sohee catches both the uncles sharing suppressed laughs between themselves. Once uncle Jongin tries to take a cookie from the plate, uncle Kyungsoo glares at him and the taller man lets the cookie go without saying anything. "He has been diagnosed with diabetes recently. So he's not allowed to eat sweets," uncle Kyungsoo explains to her with a smile.
After almost an hour when Sohee is leaving the house, she has a big smile on her face. She can't believe she's meeting them the first time. They are the warmest people she's ever seen and she hopes she can keep contact with these men.
Just before getting out of the main door, she turns around suddenly. "I have one last question," she says raising a hand. Both the men nod their heads. "Why is the bakery named Mr. Egghead? Is it because of uncle Kyungsoo's round, bald head?"
All three of them burst out laughing at the same time.