The Boyfriend App
You can imagine that, no child in her right mind would dare cross her by attempting to steal sugar-apples from her backyard, which were, in inverse proportion to her notoriety, rumored to bear the most succulent fruit.
Seven-year-old Kate wasn’t crazy then. She was just, well, hungry. As her parents know too well, she gets “hangry” on an empty stomach. It was true before as it’s true now.
Kate remembers passing Aling Sita’s wide backyard. The Lapuzes’ own garden came imported in pots and outgrown seed-starter bags of soil. There she was strolling by, school bag on her back, when she caught glimpse of overripe and fallen sugar-apples through the wrought-iron gate, their mushy and grainy insid