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| eternities:edith_luna_bulosan [2026/03/12 10:28] – created gm_ameal | eternities:edith_luna_bulosan [2026/03/13 03:33] (current) – gm_rhys |
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| It doesn't take long for Edith to be admitted. Soon enough, she's in the room. And it's her, it's actually her. Far older, and weathered, and so, so tired---but undeniably their //Nanay//. | It doesn't take long for Edith to be admitted. Soon enough, she's in the room. And it's her, it's actually her. Far older, and weathered, and so, so tired---but undeniably their //Nanay//. |
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| Even seeing her provokes a rush of memory. She closes her eyes, and it all floods back, //being jolted around in her mother's lap as the jeepney rattles through the traffic-clogged streets of Manila; scents of calamansi rising from the// panict //before her; a family gathering, surrounded by tall strangers, all their titos and titas; saying goodbye at the port (they were both crying, and she was telling Edith// Maging matapang ka, anak //**(be brave, child)**, while kissing them farewell)//. Even back then, Edith had known her Nanay was so strong, so full of fire and fury. She had stood firm against Marcos as part of the Task Force Detainees of the Philippine, outlasting his reign. Yet only a year after the People Power Revolution of 1986, Maria Bulosan was redacted by SPRHD. | Even seeing her provokes a rush of memory. She closes her eyes, and it all floods back, //being jolted around in her mother's lap as the jeepney rattles through the traffic-clogged streets of Manila; scents of calamansi rising from the// pancit //before her; a family gathering, surrounded by tall strangers, all their titos and titas; saying goodbye at the port (they were both crying, and she was telling Edith// maging matapang ka, anak //**(be brave, child)**, while kissing them farewell)//. Even back then, Edith had known her Nanay was so strong, so full of fire and fury. She had stood firm against Marcos as part of the Task Force Detainees of the Philippine, outlasting his reign. Yet only a year after the People Power Revolution of 1986, Maria Bulosan was redacted by SPRHD. |
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| Edith looks at the woman strung out on the bed before her, and cannot recognise her. //Where has their Nanay gone?// Surely this is not her. But it is true. | Edith looks at the woman strung out on the bed before her, and cannot recognise her. //Where has their Nanay gone?// Surely this is not her. But it is true. |
| Edith steels themselves. | Edith steels themselves. |
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| “Nanay? Si Edith po ito.”\\ | “Nanay? Si Edith po ito.”\\ |
| //("Nanay? It's me, Edith.")// | //("Nanay? It's me, Edith.")// |
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