Chapter 49
I will never forget my father's last sermon as a father and a pastor to me. It was when I was all feeling down and I felt like I was the most disgusted person on Earth.
"Nakikita mo ba itong hawak ko?" he asked while showing me the blue paper bill. "How much is this?"
"One thousand pesos," I answered.
"If I give it to you, will you accept it?"
That's a one thousand bill. Ilang pagkain na ang mabibili niyan kaya may tatanggi pa ba lalo na kung kusang ibibigay at kailangan mo? At hindi naman masamang tumanggi sa grasya kaya...
"Oo naman po."
"Paano kung ibibigay ko sa iyo ito pero..."
Yumuko siya at inilagay ang pera sa sahig bago tinapak-takapan. Feeling contented of what he had done to the money bill, he picked it up and looked at me again.
"I have already stepped on i
