Should she pursue friendship with a married man?
Is it wrong for me to want a friendship with a man who never was my boyfriend, and who is married to a very jealous wife?
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Is it wrong for me to want a friendship with a man who never was my boyfriend, and who is married to a very jealous wife?
I’ve been in love with a man from the time I met him when we were boarders in a house for two years. We became close friends, and I was the only one he invited to his wedding a few months after he left the boarding house.
I have a new friend. His name is Felix. On the sidewalk, he was folding torn carton boxes and pieces of cardboard he had gathered, and putting them in his pushcart. I noticed that he was slightly lame. He was working hard, the sweat marking his dark, ragged T-shirt.
Rafaelita Pelaez, president of Liceo de Cagayan University, spends most of her time in Cagayan de Oro City where she has multifarious academic duties and business concerns, including building a modern convention center which will soon open.
When I gave birth to my first son in 1953, my mother and her sisters were elated. My aunt brought a bilao of special pansit to my room at Doctors’ Hospital. My mother and her siblings opened it over the immaculate bed sheet above my feet and started eating it, happily offering me some at intervals. They never wondered whether I was in pain from my cesarean. I hated it, not because I was, but because it was so tacky.
So we sang often, in more voices than the Lettermen, when we were young and innocent and high on life. Time was, when a group of us guys and girls spent as much time as we could with one another, sharing corny jokes and laughter, burning phone lines, and singing our lungs out in perfect harmony. We hung out in each other’s homes, got to know each other’s families, and drove or took the bus to Baguio and La Union on a whim.
I was 52 when I went out on a blind date with a widower. I’ve never been married, but I lived with a divorced man for 14 years, who left me for a younger single mother. I am living off my parents’ properties, but my friends thought it was about time I got married and got me together with this guy, whose wife died over 10 years ago. He’s a wealthy businessman with three grown children.
Here’s a familiar story everyone can relate to. Neighbors see life through its many milestones: fun, academics, holidays, graduation and what have you. Eventually, they part ways, as their fates and dreams dictate. Then time becomes an element. The neighbors, childhood friends bump into each other years, or even decades, later.
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