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Raised by singles
Why are others’ daddies and mommies married? Why are Daddy and Mommy siblings?” That was a question I remember having…
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Revelations + Destinations
Meditations on love
I know love. Love is when you’re willing to die for someone, like in the film “Titanic.” Love is when…
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Wrestling with God
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 20, 2006. My life, I believe, is a wrestling…
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Coming home to our true selves
When I pass by rows of houses, I get curious about the little lives they live. What do they do…
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Baes + Babies
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Household melody
A dragging sound of a cheap slipper, slow and heavy. It was my father’s footsteps, for he had never walked…
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Market values
Forget the diet. All the mouthwatering dishes had been laid out in front of me.
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Dragged away
Several minutes before midnight as I was about to sleep, Derick's mom arrived at their house.
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Baes + Babies
‘Tita Ninang’
“Magiging tita ninang na kayo!” I was at the office when I received that message from one of my high…
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