... beautiful, lush features. The curse is known as 'monsoon season'. This devilish season brought misery in the form of immense rain which caused devastating land slides which ended many fragile lives and infected all, with the sorrow of loss. My family was very different in that we had to work twice as much as any other regular family in that I did not really have a father, as he died a day before I was born. My mother had to take the part of the nurse, the father, the mother and the teacher. My mother Sue had lived in the Philippines all her life and her mother and her ancestors alike had lived there as she did. She was a caring lady, but one thing which I noted about her, when I was young was that she looked at least five years older than what she was. This was probably due ...

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