Hey there, it's Gregory from Rough Translation.

So last year in Portland, Oregon, a 19 year old was biking from his home to his community

college.

A commute that takes him down this really steep hill.

It was a date I was super rainy and windy and I basically ended up falling down the hill

and chipping my two front teeth.

So I kinda ended up walking home as my arm hurried a whole bunch and my face was kind

of busted up.

But like, how did they mask on?

No one had to see that, but like still.

The accident came during the first semester of a stressful freshman year.

He was struggling with hybrid classes, trying to figure out when to roll out his new name,

the more gender neutral min, it means bright in Vietnamese, struggling to be himself around

his conservative Vietnamese family, who he lives with.

After the accident, he found the only thing that reliably gave him joy and let him forget

his pain was being a fan of this Korean TV show.

A Korean reality TV show called Boys Planet, where young men compete to be chosen for a

K-pop group.

I'm like very involved with idol group fandoms, especially since there was like a contestant

that like I was really attached to.

This, his name is Sengon.

I don't know, just like knowing that like hey, even though my week has been not great.

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