The Places We Still Exist: Two Souls Keep Finding Each Other

The Places We Still Exist: Two Souls Keep Finding Each Other

Brienne Lucero first met Calix Revira in the summer of 1997. She was eleven, he was thirteen-two kids in San Rafael Heights linked by their parents' prayer meetings, a shared console for Super Mario, and an unspoken crush that tasted like shared biko and the salt air of San Aurelia Cove.

Life, as it does, pulled them apart. Different schools, different circles, different loves. Brienne became the woman in magenta lipstick and a red beret; Calix, the man with a structured smile and quiet intensity. Yet, in a town nestled between the mountains and the sea, fate kept rewriting their path. A chance meeting in a Baguio café. A late-night call that felt like coming home. A resurfacing just when the other was finally moving on.

Through marriages, heartbreaks, and years apart, the connection never died. Not even distance could silence the dreams, because Brienne kept seeing him in that other world-where timelines blur and love never left.

When a forgotten Hanson song plays, when a smile flashes like a half-remembered dream from a childhood beach, when two souls meet again after lifetimes... is it coincidence, or something written in the stars of their shared sky?

This is a true-to-life love story woven with spiritual threads, 90s nostalgia, and the quiet magic of people who keep finding each other across the years.

Some loves don't leave.
They simply wait for the right lifetime.

A Filipino coming-of-age novel for anyone who has ever felt a love that time could not erase.

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Elada Delgado 🤍

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MATURE CONTENT: This story contains mature themes, adult situations, and sexual content. Not for younger readers.