PROLOGUE

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1993

Renz's POV

Renz,

Sorry kung idinaan ko 'to sa isang sulat. Ang sabi kasi ni Goldie, dapat daw ay ipaalam ko na sa'yo ang nararamdaman ko habang wala ka pang bagong girlfriend.

Gusto kita. Gusto talaga kita, Renz. Simula pa nang unang dating mo rito sa Guimaras. Puwede ba kitang maging boyfriend?

Lena

I crumpled the already-creased paper and then cursed as I tried to delicately straighten it out again. The damn thing has been folded and refolded for no fewer than thirty times in the seven years that I have kept it, and I must be even more careful now if I want to hold on to it longer. It was, after all, only a high school love letter written on a piece of cheap 1/2 crosswise intermediate pad paper by a girl who was not yet seventeen.

I have been rereading the short note for so many times that every fucking word has been permanently etched on my brain. And I can just throw it away, but I cannot...

Kung bakit nasa akin pa rin ito at hindi ko pa itinatapon ay isang misteryo kahit sa aking sarili. Tangina. Baka nga tama si Mama. Mangkukulam talaga siguro 'yong babaeng 'yon; isang napakaganda at inosenteng mangkukulam. Kaya siguro hibang na hibang sa kaniya si Don Lorenzo Peñalver I ay dahil ginayuma niya. Yes, my own fucking grandfather.

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