David holds Dinah’s hand tighter and she kisses his forehead as the plane starts its descent to Phuket International Airport. This is one of the two most important trips of our son's life so far, the other being his flight to Manila with Dinah when he was barely 2 years old.
So why this trip now?
Well... David was 4 years old and had just started preschool when he first asked us questions about his parentage. The more he grew, the more his curly locks became golden and his gray eyes shone brighter. It became more clear to him how different he looked from his classmates, his Titos and Titas, his cousins, and from us. We have early on decided to tell him the truth but only in terms that he would understand at his age.
In the same way that other Moms of his classmates would creatively expl
