Chapter 3 A new life.

Ever since coming to America, my father first landed in Florida, and later moved to California where he got employed as a salesman in a major automobile company. In this company he met my mother who was a colleague and a saleslady. They got married and raised a family together, our family, the family which I deem a cursed one, a family responsible for my life predicaments a most dysfunctional family. But I can say from his narrations that settling down in America was not easy.

On his arrival, maybe my father thought he would easily stumble on some nice opportunity, or like magic become the successful person he had dreamt of becoming. He without logical considerations must have thought to himself that living in America will be easy, and there would be little effort on his side to make ends meet. However when he arrived, he realized that here in America too he would have to toil and find a job to make things work. My father thought there will be great lucrative opportunities for him, but instead this opportunities only favored the educated class, those with college degree. My father being a college drop out couldn't secure such an opportunity. Though he found that living here was much favorable than in Korea, yet it dawned on him that America is also a place to toil. Of course the standard of living was better, the economy offered much here than in Korea. My father landed his first job as a home teacher. Where he thought kids of grade school at their homes after their main school lessons. This Job brought some good bucks to my father, of course good enough for him to feed on, and pay the dues for his lodge.

During his time as a home teacher, my father on several occasions had lured and molested the female children in his pedophilic approaches. In absence of the parents, he would make them sit on his thighs, he presses them closely to him, and when the unsuspecting children found this strange, he would say he's teaching them how to relate with people. The parents of the children had no knowledge of this heinous acts. Sometimes he lured other children in the neighborhood to join the lessons, and on the pretext of offering to teach them, he molested the female ones among them. In all this encounters he was never suspected, in fact the gentleman who had employed him really commends him, and had promised to give my father an offer that would improve his life. The gentleman saw my father as a trustworthy and honest man who works really hard in training the children. After a couple of months my father had saved enough to rent an apartment. He would not be able to get a good place with the little he has, so he had to find a simple place to manage. That would at least be able to spare him of the immense expenses he bore at the lodge house. He was able to secure a bedsit house at the southern part of Florida. That was dolphin isles, Broward county. Here there were many bachelors like him who live in bedsits, managing to make ends meet. I his house my father never needed any much furniture or utensils. He had a simple bed and in fact that was all that he had in his apartment. He lived here for a year while still attending to his teaching job. Some of the female children had become so attached to him, because in his approaches, this kids suspected nothing but thought it was his way of showing them compassion. He made them feel that he is there to give them utmost care, which they rarely got from their parents, who are mostly at work. He made them to undress during the lesson periods, and they would willingly allow him to caress their body thoroughly. He sometimes used the pretext of applying body lotions for them, in that case he had his way satisfying his inhuman desires. When the little girls complained of pains in their organs, he quickly assures them it's nothing to worry, and convinced them not to tell anything of such to their parents.

After about two years working as a home teacher, my father got an offer that transformed his life a bit, that made him see the light of making a decent living in America, of course a middle class living, an offer that brought him to California. The gentleman who had employed him as a home teacher, is an owner of a major automobile company, and being very pleased with my father's diligence and intelligence, offered to give him a better job in his automobile company in California. At first he wanted to give my father a higher post, but with my father's educational background he could only be put as a salesman, this of course was better, far better than the teaching job, this job offers a payment that would give a middle class living. And that was how my father came to California.