A friend's Request
This is more like it. The pic I mean. This is a very old picture of my friend's Mom. Her name - Inocencia B. Ragual. Since five years ago, I believe she has been into this already. That is desperately looking for a way to find her mom at least. She showed me tattered and age-worn "adoption documents" which states the name of the couple who were supposed to be her parents. They come from Pangasinan , a town north of Manila . That's supposed to be 300 or so kilometers from Marikina where my friend and I both live with our families. You see, my friend and I were classmates in high school. But back then she never talked about being adopted. There were just whispers from people who knew her. It never really bothered us. I for one didn't care. She is a friend, period. I thought perhaps, intimate things such as those were best left unspoken. But today mother and all, in her golden years as well, she is at that stage of her life where the past is suddenly crucial to her