SIX Filipina Cultural Dancers each with their own WAY or path, bundled together to walk the ONE ROAD of hopes and dreams for themselves and their family. They thought that thru the glamour of dancing they will represent their country's culture and beauty but the reality was totally different. Walking the road in a foreign land, where danger is luring and just waiting in the corner, their honor and dignity was grabbed away from them. Fears, misfortunes and tragedy, walks too along their way, which two of them succumbed, the other four survived. Amidst tears and sometimes laughs, of loves and hurts, they portrayed the true meaning of Empathy, of Togetherness, of Friendship, and of Resiliency.
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Here are some fragments inside this book;
**Luisa was high pregnant and she has nothing, no money, no food to eat. She looked at inside the cabinet and saw empty bottles with twenty-five cents deposit each, she counted, and if she would bring back the bottles to the grocery store, she could buy one kilo of broken rice and few of the instant noodles. She was broken of pity to herself; she was in Europe and she thought she could earn money but like her father who fed them with his income from empty bottles, her two- or three-days survival depended also now on bottles. Luisa wept. *
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**The girls were frightened. The man grabbed Luz because she will not dance topless and dragged her outside. Luz cried in pain**
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**Grace told her friends that Dimitri raped her. They told her to go to the police but Grace said she could not because when Dimitri gave her money, she accepted it. The money was badly needed by her family in the Philippines. *
I am inviting you to buy and read SIX WAYS IN ONE ROAD.
Bundle of short stories. Lyda's Dilemma > About vengeance of a woman scorned; Your Love My Life > innocent love and naivety; My Cousin My Tarzan >disappointment in idolizing someone; My Heart Don't Beg for Love >about a woman emancipation; Picking Up the Bygone Dreams > making forgotten dreams come true even in the sunset of life; The Day the Russians Attacked Our Village > traditions, beliefs, superstition and how the people panicked that unforgettable day; Premonition and My Ectopic Pregnancy > a mirror shattered in front of her, at the same time later she fight for her life because of her exceptional pregnancy.
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About inter-racial marriages. A peep-in on the marriage life of Filipinas married to Dutchmen to understand why some marriages fail while some succeed. A must to read book for Filipinas that dreamed to marry a man of another culture, ways of life and of a different mind-set. Filipinas as wife are expected to be submissive so if one had a rebel mind, I advise think twice to marry a foreigner so to speak. Also, for men they can learned what is a Filipina as wife.
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Some fragments inside this book;
*** Nora don't know what to say to Beth. Beth was crying, her husband Noah gave her three days to leave their house, Beth was asking for help. ***
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***Editha locked the door of their bedroom. After putting her passport and some money in her handbag, she opened the window and from there she fled from their house. She ran as fast as she could to the highway very afraid and crying. *
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***Lucas was old, invalid and had one leg. Alicia was a little disappointed and asked Myrna if she doesn't have another candidate for her to marry. Myrna answered her, "you said you will not be choosy. Important is, that he is willing to marry you and that you will not have problem anymore with your staying permit. Only, hahaha, sorry Alicia, I could not help myself to laugh, I am thinking how an old, invalid Dutch with one leg could make love. I find it funny! Hahaha." ***
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***It's already becoming dark. Mila was afraid and doesn't know what to do. Bram left her in the middle of the forest in a communist country with no money and passport. What will happen to her?
Mila thought she's going to die. ***
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I hope you would also like to read this book 'The Filipina Wives and Their Dutch Husbands'
The Davis Family, pure white race at glimpse, functioned well in the society where prejudice and racism denied but secretly practiced. When their denied Filipina matriarch Emma died, truth after truths revealed their notional liked story that turned their lives upside down. What were the truths that soften their hearts and could destroy their world of hypocrisy? Could there be love indeed behind prejudice?
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Some fragments from this book;
*** The tears in Janet's cheek just kept rolling. The letter of her Granny talked about Andres. Who was Andres? She could not understand it. ***
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***'I do not know that your Granny is brown,' Avery the friend of Janet said. 'She's not really our Granny, in blood. She's the Nanny of Mom and when my true grandparents died in accident, Granny Emma brought her up, that's why Mom considered her as mother and we children as our grandmother.' ***
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***Janet was shocked. She's jumping and crying after reading the letter of Emma to a certain Regina de la Fuente. She refused to believe it and thought to burn the letter. *
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*** "The descent of this family made me a white thrash. My two children have the same descent but I love and will die for them. If I had this unconditional love to my children despite of their descent, why I cannot love my husband the same way I love his children? Oh, my God, I am so sorry." Tracy's wept.
Inviting you to buy and read this book, OF FAMILY BONDAGE, The Love of Emma; you will not regret it.
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Please watch for these five coming titles:
1. GLAMOROUS and NOTORIOUS LIFE OF MARIETTA (tentative title but I already decided a new title for this story, *GOD, My Name is Raquel*), singer-actress celebrity that became notorious as her name was connected to a crime syndicate that involved big names in politics and high society. (This novel is in the stage of proofreading and editing. Coming soon.)
2. THE PIGS ARE WAITING TOO, a story of a woman who endlessly waiting for her LOVE that did not come back and was mocked in their village as insane.
3. IS HE, MY FATHER? A story of two persons with their undying love. Lies and truths crossing each other lines for a woman to ask on the grave of her mother if the man was really her father she knew and later her own son asking her the same question.
4. THE SOLUTION SEED. She wanted a child he cannot give. An idea was formulated by them and seems works out. They were satisfied but the unexpected happened that brought chaos, problems and sorrows.
5. ROSITA-SAN, she had a boyfriend but married a Japanese whose grandfather was a high officer of the Japanese Army during World War II. They lived in the Philippines with the purpose to locate a treasure as a map suggested. This story is about treasure hunting, love, greed and crime.