Living To Leave
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Last published Thu, Jun 11, 2020
Celestine Ortega is a woman who commited herself on discovering the beauty of life. She travels to different places in the Philippines to know what life and what the inhibitors in it can offer --
To a complete stranger.
To a no one --
That will leave once she is fulfilled with the things she believes she's meant to accomplish.
That is her life.
Nabubuhay para umalis.
Pero ano nga ba ang mangyayare kung mahulog siya sa isang binata,
magiging dahilan ba ito ng kaniyang pananatili?
or
Will she continue living to leave?
-ps
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