Elena
“Your parents—Hazel and Jonathan—were just newly weds then. Easy and slow, they regularly stroll the outskirts of Dela Paz. To the grass plains and the river, to the bridge that marks the borderline of Dela Paz and Malaban, they would always go there and hang around.
One day, from their usual walk, they brought home an infant. It was one of the rare instances that Hazel was extremely happy. She went to me and said she would be the mom of the child.
At first, I disagreed. I said we should look for the child’s biological mother. But then they said they found the infant near the river bank. They insisted no one would look for the child. So I compromised.”
Caroline shed a tear with the memory of
Bab Populer