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CHAPTER 7- A NOTE OF LOVE

Thousand notes of love sitting in the rusted box  hidden inside the almirah  of old times , An imprint of rose from our first meet,  A  teardrop when he  bid me adieu By the age  of 74 , I have seen generations of couples and heard real life love stories . It always gives butterflies in my stomach because  love is the  horizon where  fantasy shaped sky meets the reality shaped sea. I am  fortunate enough of having  my perfect love story.  Back in the 1950s, running along the chaotic streets of UP with crackling sounds of laughter and  the  swaying of hair along  with  the rhythm of  wind , everything s eemed so  good to be true .  My childhood was more absorbed in reel life rather than real life. I used to watch romantic movies  where the boy gets the girl in the end and they live happily ever after.  One usual day  I was going  back home with my sister when he crossed ...