The Boyfriend App
Kate begged and tried to use the anime-puppy-eye trick that Ecto had been wont to spring on her.
“Oh, all right,” Mrs. Lapuz finally said and began to tell her story. Kate forgot all about her sadness and peered at her ma’s face in the dim with wide, bright eyes.
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“I told you before that I came from somewhere near Boracay beach, in Western Visayas,” Mrs. Lapuz started narrating. “That was only partly true. To be exact, I grew up in a small village in Capiz.”
“Capiz?” Kate’s eyes grew even larger. “Isn’t that, like, Aswang Capital?”