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Part I (Chapters 1 - 3)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Kim, Ae-Ran. My Brilliant Life. Forge (A Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, 2021.

• This book is written from the first person perspective and in a blend of past and present tenses.

• In the Prologue, which is written in the present tense, Areum writes about being the "oldest" person born to very young parents.

• Areum wants to know what it feels like to be his own father, and to have experienced becoming a parent to a sick child so very young.

• In Part I, Chapter 1, which begins in the past tense, Areum, a 16 year-old suffering from progenia, a disease that causes premature aging, wanted to hear the stories of his parents' past.

• Areum knew his mother Mira's father did not like his own father, Daesu, from the beginning.

• Daesu and Mira were...

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