He sold his bl00d so I could study, but now that I earn ₱100,000 a month, when he came to ask me for money, I didn’t give him a single cent
He used to sell his bl00d so I could stay in school. Yet when he came to me years later[…]
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He used to sell his bl00d so I could stay in school. Yet when he came to me years later[…]
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A Celebration Turned War Zone Sunlight poured through the backyard canopy, scattering across tables draped in soft mint and lavender.[…]
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On a plane, a woman yelled at a young soldier, calling him a traitor to the Motherland. But the next[…]
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When a new family moved in next door, the eerie resemblance between their daughter and my own sent me spiraling[…]
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My own children, the same ones we worked for our entire lives, left us on a deserted highway. My husband,[…]
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