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I was in the beauty parlor having my quarterly haircut when my cell phone rang. It looked like my youngest daughter calling.

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It is the second week of March but the weather remains cold. Late at night it gets colder. I only use the air-conditioner that comes with the flat when the weather is terribly hot so I am sensitive to the temperature outside.

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Just as I was leaving on Christmas Eve morning, I got an e-mail from my daughter Sarri:

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Today is my second daughter Sarri’s birthday. She turns 46. My daughters are coming close to 50.

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Sarri, my daughter, was determined to visit Dapitan, the place of Jose Rizal’s exile.  So Friday of the past week we got on a plane and took our own quiet trip there.

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Hello, Mom, she said, over my cell- phone the night of January 3.

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Dr. Solita Camara-Besa is not my real mother but I call her Mommy anyway. All I know is that she is big, warm and wonderful and she is the mother of my very dear friend, Amy Besa, who was co-mom to my second daughter, Sarri, way back in the ’80s when Sarri was in school at the State University of New York.

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I was in the beauty parlor having my quarterly haircut when my cell phone rang. It looked like my youngest daughter calling.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135494 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805260 [AuthorName] => Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 917325 [Title] => A simple life [Summary] =>

It is the second week of March but the weather remains cold. Late at night it gets colder. I only use the air-conditioner that comes with the flat when the weather is terribly hot so I am sensitive to the temperature outside.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135494 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805260 [AuthorName] => Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 893285 [Title] => The other side of Christmas [Summary] =>

Just as I was leaving on Christmas Eve morning, I got an e-mail from my daughter Sarri:

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Today is my second daughter Sarri’s birthday. She turns 46. My daughters are coming close to 50.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135494 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805260 [AuthorName] => Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 674062 [Title] => Dapitan - then and now [Summary] =>

Sarri, my daughter, was determined to visit Dapitan, the place of Jose Rizal’s exile.  So Friday of the past week we got on a plane and took our own quiet trip there.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135494 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805260 [AuthorName] => Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 647789 [Title] => Almost family [Summary] =>

Hello, Mom, she said, over my cell- phone the night of January 3.

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Dr. Solita Camara-Besa is not my real mother but I call her Mommy anyway. All I know is that she is big, warm and wonderful and she is the mother of my very dear friend, Amy Besa, who was co-mom to my second daughter, Sarri, way back in the ’80s when Sarri was in school at the State University of New York.

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