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got himself in trouble. Worse, he
had sloppily put the family’s legacy and their future at
risk.
    Ronaldo, in his struggle to fight
depression, turned to alcohol and vices. He also started to
socialize, which he didn’t usually do before. His newfound set of
peers taught him how to frequent casinos and cockfighting derbies.
It didn’t take long, and he was plunged into a situation where
alcohol, gambling and vices took control of his life.
    In the span of two years, he didn’t do
anything but indulged his vices. He had neglected the management of
their farm, which as a result, suffered a great loss. The produce
of the de Leon’s farm drastically took a massive
nosedive.
    She had no idea that they were already
facing bankruptcy. She was busy with her studies, and so was
Brenda. They would usually stay and spend most of their time in
their rented apartment that was located in the downtown area, near
their university, busy with their affairs at school. They would
only get to go home during weekends. Sometimes, even the weekends
would be consumed by extra-curricular activities. That was the
reason why she and Brenda had no idea that their father was already
addicted to alcohol and gambling.
    Six months ago, she discovered the
problem on their farm when she took sa stroll, just to see what was
going on. She happened to talk to one of their employees, and she
was told that the farm was suffering from bad business decisions
and dire neglect. The produce wasn’t aplenty anymore, and of low
quality. Fertilizers and pesticides that were needed to maintain
the farm weren’t properly provided.
    That discovery came as a total shock
to her. All the while she thought that everything was in order,
that their life was in order. So she started to dig for more
information. And that was how she discovered her father’s vices.
She was really surprised to know about it.
    She never thought that her ever
responsible father would turn out to be a drunkard and a gambler,
and worse, a lenient head of the family, by dipping them in
debt just to sustain his vices. She was told that her father would
usually splurge hundreds of thousands of pesos from his gambling
and cockfighting habits, that he lost significant amounts of money
for the last two years.
    She thought that they were already
recovering from her mother’s sudden death, but here they were now,
facing another storm in their lives.
    Then, they started receiving letters
from the bank. That was when she realized that her father was
already deeply entangled in his bad habits, that he had spent
millions of pesos just to indulge his vices, that he loaned their
farm in the bank just so he could support his gambling and alcohol
addiction.
    She was shaken by the realization. She
knew that her father was problematic, that he was dealing with a
dilemma that was hard to fight, but he just couldn’t do this to
them – betray her and Brenda, and put the family’s future in
jeopardy.
    She bravely confronted her father one
day, but she couldn’t talk to him properly as he was always drunk.
If he was trying to hide his drinking habits from them before,
lately, he wasn’t anymore. He already would drink in the open, even
if his children were at home.
    She knew something was bothering him.
He would show desperation everytime a letter from the bank would
arrive. Of course, he was the only one who knew the severity of
their financial crisis, and it was his own undoing.
    For the sake of their family and their
future, she dared to have a heart-to-heart talk with her father.
She was angry that he had been gambling and drinking for the past
two years. She wanted to berate him for the bad person he had
become, but when he started confessing to her, telling her how he
had been miserable after the death of his wife, her anger
melted.
    She couldn’t help but pity her father.
That was how she realized the extent of the effects of her mother’s
death to him. He died, too, along with her. He suffered from