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A sourdough starter that activates too early, before its colony is established, before it's been fed consistently enough to stabilize—
It doesn't die.
It sours. And to fix it requires time, patience, and lots of undivided attention.
Kim Seungmin learns that a starter can be fed. A starter can be warmed. A starter can be given time and consistency and the right environment, and sometimes—sometimes—the sourness fades into something complex. Something worth keeping.
But Seungmin doesn't know how to be kept. He only knows how to be left.
And seven people wanting him doesn't feel like a beginning.
It feels like the setup for an ending he's already survived before.