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damp
cheeks. It was such an ordeal to sit beside her father, and to see
his dire condition. She really couldn’t help but be worried about
him.
    Actually, she wasn’t really worried
about her and Brenda’s future should their father die. She was more
worried of his condition, of his situation. She just didn’t want
their father to leave them yet, and be reunited with their mother
in heaven. She loved him so much, and the thought of losing him was
already breaking her heart apart. If she could just do something,
she surely wouldn’t allow it. She would do her best to keep her
father alive.
    If the decision was only hers to
make!
    “ Papa…” She sighed
desperately. She was still distraught when she wiped her tears with
her fingers.
    She couldn’t believe that this kind of
mess would happen to her father. He suffered from a stroke when he
received a letter from the bank, informing him that he only had a
month left to pay for his debt, and failure to do so would allow
the bank to sequester their farm.
    Her father made their twenty hectares
of land in Davao City a collateral when he loaned money from the
bank. The property was a lush farmland which had been their source
of income for a long time. It was teeming with fruit bearing trees
such as mango, durian, and mangosteen. A good portion of it was a
productive banana plantation.
    Ronaldo, her father, inherited the
farm from his parents. He was doing well in managing their primary
source of livelihood as she grew up. They would always enjoy a
bountiful harvest, and their life was pretty good. It was full of
happiness and love. But not lately.
    Things drastically changed when her
mother died in a car accident. Since then, her father became
miserable and depressed. She knew why. He blamed himself for the
death of his wife.
    She actually understood how he felt.
It wasn’t easy when he was the driver of the ill-fated car that
crashed in the back of the bus. Her father survived the accident,
but her mother didn’t. And it left Ronaldo very
devastated.
    She knew that her father loved her
mother so much, and that his life revolved around his wife and his
children. Her mother was the only woman his father had ever loved.
They were childhood sweethearts who fell in love with each other.
They’d been inseparable ever since. And the death of her mother
trumped the light in his life.
    They were once a picture of a happy
family. Her father was a responsible husband, a fun father, and a
good provider. Her mother, on the other hand, was the most loving
and supportive mother in the world. Their family lived in bliss for
a long time. She thought that they would stay that way forever –
happy and contented. Until tragedy brought total misery to every
member of her family. She and Brenda lost their mother, while their
father lost his greatest love.
    The three of them were deeply hurt,
and each struggled to survive the tragedy. But they developed a
different coping mechanisms unique from each other, though they all
grieved from the tragic loss.
    She focused her attention to her
studies. When her mother was still alive, she promised her that she
would become a lawyer someday, that she would make her proud, and
so she dedicated all her efforts and energy to fulfill that
promise. She was doing well at school. Her grades were excellent,
and her name constantly tops in the honors’ list of the
university.
    Her sister on the other hand, focused
her attention to her peers. Brenda would usually hang out with her
friends. She did that to distract herself from thinking too much
about the death of their mom. She was just glad that her sister
found a good set of friends, a strong support system that gave her
inspiration to continue with her life, and most of all, not a bunch
of bad influences.
    So she and Brenda were actually coping
well, but their father was an entirely different story. And she was
sad that she discovered about his dilemma and his struggles when it
was already too late. He already