Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
I fondly remember my childhood in a rural, coastal town in the Philippines.
I was surrounded by the love of my parents, grandparents, and friends.
A few of the moments that I recall vividly:
- Building milk-box birdhouses with my father
- Searching for beautiful seashells at the nearby beach with my friends on some late afternoons
- Going to my grandfather’s pechay patch, with him spraying fertilizer on them
- Eating lunch at the fishpond at the back of my grandparents’ house; the nanny would be feeding the fish the rice I didn’t eat
- Running after my mother on the streets because I wanted to go with her to shop
- Serving as a cane for my half-paralyzed grandmother on her sunset walks (my grandparents lived just across our house)
- Helping my grandmother sell document paper and envelopes to people having their check-ups at the public clinic across the street
- Playing fancy toys with my rich neighbor’s kids
- Proudly wearing the bright blue pants printed with a Mickey Mouse design on the legs
Good old days.
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Daryl Zamora 
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