Three years ago…
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“Where is your brother? Don’t tell me he is in the library again?” The fifteen-year-old Yadiel asked the fourteen-year-old Coleen as they made their way to the school’s exit. He was carrying Coleen's bag as she counted the money in her hand.
“Cale is a bit out of it these days because of mom’s surgery this weekend,” Coleen answered, pertaining to her twin brother. She sighed. “This is already eleven thousand. This should be enough to complete the money we needed for my mom’s surgery. Thank you, Yadiel.”
After a month of selling home-made dumplings and doing art commissions, Yadiel and Coleen were able to raise eleven thousand pesos which would be used for the surgery of Coleen’s mother who was battling against breast cancer.
Due to the sudden sickness of Coleen’
