A fairy tale come true—because Mom knew best
Dear Emily, My mother and her best friend have known each other since nursery. They were so close they promised each other they’d marry off their firstborn once they
Dear Emily, My mother and her best friend have known each other since nursery. They were so close they promised each other they’d marry off their firstborn once they
Maria was an only child who lived in a big house with her widowed father, but he somehow fell into dire straits and mortgaged all they owned to a rich widow with a flourishing pawnshop business, but then he lost all including his house and everything in it, even his daughter Maria, to the pawnshop owner, and then she married him, and shortly after he died.
The next day the king sent his three sons out again. This time he gave them veils for their sweethearts to embellish. “A worthy wife will know how to make a good veil,” the king said.
This is an abridged and different version of the same tale I did for “Filipino Heritage” Vol. V. Once there was a couple with no children. “Give us a child,” they begged the saint. “We will accept any offspring at all, even if it be just a mouth.”
Fans of Filipino author Samantha Sotto can now breathe a sigh of relief. Her first novel, “Before Ever After” did away with the dreaded “Once upon a time” opening and
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