Redoble Family

Tats is the 7th son. Bro. Ben, my father, walked miles, visiting prison cells looking for me at the height of the people's uprising against the Marcos Dictatorship in the 80's.
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Khalil Andre, the son of the 7th son, will soon finish elementary school. At age 12 he’s spent 9 solid years inside a classroom, guarded by and under the scrutiny of a teacher.

Lola Iyang started small by peddling tobacco leaves in one of the corners of Moalboal market, as I was told. She expanded her business by moving from one tabo(makeshift market place) to another, town to town, fiesta to fiesta until she could afford to set-up her own permanent place in the market. In her business [...]

The only dialogue I could remember: Mitch: “What’s the point of loving?” Morie: “There’s no point in loving, because loving is the point!”
Mitch is the long lost student who promised his sociology teacher Morie to get in touch after graduation, but never did. He was reminded of his promise many years after when a flashed [...]