Chapter One The sun were about to set, yet still it managed to torture the town of San Sebastian with the scorching heat it emits. Whilst everyone is having a busy day, mang Mando, on the other hand, takes the opportunity to dry his sacks of palay that he just got from the last harvest. Sweat is profusely dripping down from his forehead while his clothes are starting to soak it. He hardly stops to rest and only does when he’s about to faint from exhaustion. Tired he may be from the previous day’s harvest, but his diligence were not shaken. Well, it may seem that he were about to, but don’t be fooled. He can’t stop now, after all, he had no one else to expect to. His wife’s wages barely reaches the minimum that the government has set since it was just a part time job in doing laundry for their neighbors from time to time. As for his son, he wasn’t set to order him around doing what is not connected to studying, because what he wanted for them was to finish their studies and s
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