A sweet love story that started in a long time of courtship. Many years ago, their family who lived in Batangas, City moved to Quezon, Province for some reasons. There, they started their new life. It was a family of 10, father, mother, and the 8 siblings. First three are all girls, who’s named after Mother Mary as their first names. They are all gorgeous. They had many suitors and the eldest fell in love with a good man. After having a less than three years of relationship of being girlfriend-boyfriend, they decided to get married. They had a happy family. They had 4 kids by God’s grace. A boy as an eldest and a three girls. They lived happily. The husband is a farmer of palay and other crops such as onions, spinach, and pechay, while wife is taking care of the kids and the house.
When the kids grew up, the eldest one had his job as a food packer in an airplane abroad, the next one worked in Taiwan as a factory worker, the third one is a regular employee in an electronics company here in our country and the youngest fid finished her college with the help of her siblings, she is now an accountant but not yet licensed because after college graduation, she found a job with a reasonable salary that’s why she didn’t had the chance to take licensure exam. After some time, the first three had their own family and the youngest is still single up to this time.
Until one day, their mother had a weak body, she’s confined to the hospital almost every month, while father is in good health. On mother’s last confinement, father had a bad feeling, since it’s pandemic, he was not brought to the hospital by his daughter, instead, they called the hospital staff and had an scheduled check-up and confinement, according to the staff, the hospital can’t accommodate many patients for following the safety protocols, that’s why they scheduled father as number 6 patient after discharging some confined patients. While he is at home, he always asks where is his wife, again and again, the daughter answered that she’s in the hospital. On the fifth day of mother’s confinement, father had a very bad feeling so she rushed him to the hospital, not in the one he had an appointment for check up and confinement, it was late in the evening, eldest daughter accompanied him to the hospital while the third one and the youngest are the watches of the mother. On that very night, unexpectedly, father died. Daughter informed her two siblings who watched over mother thru chat saying father passed away already. When both of them received the message, their mother is awake that’s why they didn’t speak they don’t want to let mother know what’s happening, their body shaking in shock and pain. They look at each other but can’t cry in front of mother so they left the room one by one crying outside, “nanlamig buo naming katawan, ‘di kami makaiyak sa harap ni Mommy, nanginig kami.” “Ang ginawa ko, lumabas ako ng kwarto, doon ako umiyak sa labas, tapos bumalik ako, si Baby naman ang lumabas at umiyak, tapos pagbalik nya ako uli, paulit-ulit namin ginawa ‘yun.” “Hini namin masabi sa kanya na wala na si tatay, kasi baka lalo lumala amg sitwasyon n’ya, napagkasunduan na wag ipagtapat sa kanya ang nangyari hanggang gumaling sya.”
“On the fifth day of death, we decided for father’s burial, but the night before, mother got in comatose condition. The doctor said, “talk to her, she will hear you”. That’s the time na hinawakan naming ang kanyang kamay at sinabi naming “ Mommy, kung naririnig mo kami, pisilin moa ng aming mga kamay” at pinisil nga nya ang kamay naming magkakapatid, dun naming ipinagtapat na wala na si tatay at sinabi namin na sige, kung nahihirapan ka na, kung napapagod kana, pinapayagan ka na naming sumuko, tatanggapin naming kahit napakasakit. Kung gusto mo na sumama kay tatay maluwag naming tinatanggap, ‘wag kayo mag alala sa aming magkakapatid, magmamahalan kami, at pinisil nya ang aming mga palad at tumulo ang kanyang luha, pinunas naming ‘yon ngunit tumulo uli at pagkatapos, nangyari na an gaming inaasahan.” “we felt so much pain. Hindi na muna naming ipinalibing si tatay, ibinurol sila na magkatabi at pagkalipas ng ilang araw ay sabay naming silang ipinalibing.” “Kuya, our eldest who is in abroad didn’t had the chance to come, he always video call on us, we pitied him for he wanted to go home but he can’t because of the pandemic.
BTW, they are both born in the month of December and both died on the month of July. We all call it ‘FOREVER’.
