Side Story #1 Tragedy Befall, Hope Rises *** I found out about it that morning with insistence phone calls from my grandmother that I never picked up, until my brother suddenly called me and then I grew concerned… Sometimes I still have dreams of my father… And I can never speak to him in those dreams, he’s always away, always somewhere else where I can’t reach him… Ever since he died, I couldn’t cry at his funeral… all I could do was think… and then I felt it, regret… I would never be able to show my father I’ve made it in life, he will never be able to see it… to see me happy and successful and that’s a painful thing to think about… Because I always wanted to be a super rich and famous author, so that I can go back and get gifts for my family in my hometown, so that I can show off,

