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Source text - English AS I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. "Have you seen my keys?" he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixie, at his heels, anxious over her favorite human's upset.
In the past I would have been right behind Dixie. I would have turned off the faucet and joined the hunt while trying to soothe my husband with bromides like, "Don't worry, they'll turn up." But that only made him angrier, and a simple case of missing keys soon would become a full-blown angst-ridden drama starring the two of us and our poor nervous dog.
Now, I focus on the wet dish in my hands. I don't turn around. I don't say a word. I'm using a technique I learned from a dolphin trainer.
I love my husband. He's well read, adventurous and does a hysterical rendition of a northern Vermont accent that still cracks me up after 12 years of marriage.
Translation - Korean 내가 부엌 싱크대에서 설거지를 하고 있자, 남편이 짜증을 내며 내 뒤로 다가와 묻는다. “내 열쇠 못 봤어?” 그리고는 크게 한숨을 내쉬고 발을 쿵쾅거리며 방을 나가자, 우리 개, 딕시는 속상해 하는 주인을 걱정하며 그의 바로 뒤를 쫓아 나간다.
예전 같았으면, 나도 곧바로 딕시의 뒤를 쫓아 나갔을 것이다. 수도꼭지를 잠그고는, “걱정 말아요, 나올 거니까.” 라는 말로 남편을 달래며, 열쇠 찾기에 동참했을 것이다. 하지만 그럴수록 남편은 더 짜증만 냈고, 열쇠 분실과 같은 단순한 사건이 남편과 나, 그리고 잔뜩 긴장한 불쌍한 우리 개를 주연으로 한 불안과 고뇌의 드라마가 되었을 것이다.
하지만 지금, 난 설거지에만 집중하며, 뒤도 돌아 보지 않는다. 한 마디 말도 하지 않는다. 돌고래 조련사들에게서 배운 기술을 활용하는 중이기 때문이다.
난 남편을 사랑한다. 그는 박식하고, 모험을 좋아하며, 결혼한 지 12년이 지난 지금에도 우스꽝스러운 북부 버몬트 억양을 연출하며 나를 웃게 만드는 남자다.
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