| Since
it's Mothers' Day, my whole fam went to Something
Fishy in Eastwood City, Libis at around eight
o' clock in the evening. I had a good time even
though I never really appreciate seafood that
much. We laughed and talked about everything-
Dad's very sick 7650, my experience in Boracay
with Justin and his fam last April, Dad and Tita
Marie's (my stepmom) officemates, a commercial
offer from Globe which I turned down (Ack!), and
even Gracia Burnham! Don't get me
wrong... my 'rents are NOT THAT old and they're really cool.
I'm proud
to say that they're kinda updated. Hehe... But
I hope my REAL mom was also there
physically because if she was, I bet she can also
relate to the things we were talking about.
You see,
my mom died some years ago because of the big C.
It was hard to accept that fact considering I was
just a little girl at that time. I was in denial
for months. Then after a year or so, Dad started
dating Tita Mar, who happens to be my
mom's best friend. It was even harder and more
painful to bear because I was not ready to have a
new mommy just yet. I hated tita because to
me, it was like she was betraying her best friend-
my mother!
One night,
Dad entered my bedroom while I was watching TV. He
showed me a letter mom gave him before she died. I
read it and I cried the whole night. The letter
said everything- that if ever Dad is to marry
again, my mom wants someone who will love her
daughter (me) and her husband (Dad) whole-heartedly. And you guess it,
she was actually referring to her best bud, Tita
Mar. But I don't think I understood it all then
until my Dad explained it to me. I
was not in favor of Tita Mar even after she
and my Dad got married. I did not love her then. I
only agreed her to be my Dad's wife for the sake
of my mom's favor when she was still alive. But
as time passed, I learned to love her. She made my
Dad happy and she treated me like her own
daughter, even if I acted like a brat. The best
thing about Tita Mar is that she never feel
uneasy whenever we start talking about mom. She was
even the one who suggested that we visit mom at
the cemetery and give her a bouquet of red roses
as a Mothers' Day present before we go to
Libis. My
dad is full of luck 'cause he found a nice second
wife. My mom is too, 'cause she has a best friend
who never left her, even after death. But I guess
I'm the luckiest of them all 'cause I have two
moms to celebrate Mothers' Day with- one who's there
physically and one who's there in spirit. 
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