The author, highly inspired by parents, teachers, and students she associated with, wrote this novel when she was still a younger mother of eight and college professor of two famous universities in the Philippines. The novel featured stories which were partly true and halfway fiction, to highlight the possibility of happy ending in anybody's life with fire of faith and hope burning in their hearts. Teardrops are more of happiness after all challenges are won and glory is finally within our grasp.
Theme of the Story:
Estelle Esguerra was a simple highly devoted college professor whose world revolved around her parents, husband, children, and her students. She never thought, even for a moment, that her life would have a sudden twist.
In spite of her own critical status, Estelle Esguerra served as a symbol of vigor, inspiration, and comfort to those whose lives she touched; to several students with issues affecting their studies, to an abused woman haunted by her miserable past, and her daughter, a typical teenage student confused between crush and love.
The novel has actual stories of challenges, uniformity and diversity among teachers, parents, and students, experienced, collected and filed by the writer while serving as a professor of two prominent universities in the Philippines. The author believes up to the present time that students should fail only on extreme cases, after teachers have really tried their best to win and mentor them.
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As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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