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Chapter 18: Behind The Scenes
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2021-10-21 22:38:48The young night sky glimmered with flashing lights, and the sound of a sultry band was playing in the background.
For a moment the cold ice slowly sublimed on the wooden table as Matty was sitting nervously on the corner of a certain cafe near the Capital. She was calm at the most part but there is this slight fear in her eyes.
Today is a rather important day because this is the day that the world will know who Mariano Fernandez was.
To her, he is her grandfather, to some he is a father, and to many he is the current President of the Republic Philippines. There is a very heavy personality there in the whole nation.
But all of that will end today.
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