Hi I’m Melojane Celocia, I was born and raised in Bolocboloc, Barili, Cebu. I have two brothers and I’m the youngest, we used to have a happy life as if there were no problems as long as we were happy to be with each other. I can see that dad loves mom very much, even when I was young I could really tell that they love each other, even if they have a problem, they don’t seem nervous or scared because they will solve it together. When I was five or six years old, my father died, we were too young to lose our father, it was very difficult to see your mother always crying and not sleeping and hardly eating, so when my father died it was necessary mom left to work to keep us alive and give us the things we need, even though she is not used to being away from us, but she did it for our sake. Mom goes home every two months and then she goes back to the City to work, that’s what she always does. When I was in grade 3, we moved to Moalboal to continue our studies, because my mother’s brother is also here so they can be close to each other, and another reason for our move is that grandma is old and she wants to live there so that she can be close to his children. So, I was in grade 5 when we went back to Barili to visit my father’s grave with my grandmother and my siblings, and then grandmother said that mom was coming home but we were going to meet at the cemetery, we arrived. We were at the cemetery and mom was already there then I was surprised that she was with a man, mom introduced the man to us, she said that boy was her boyfriend and would be our stepfather, I’m not mad because of that I was actually happy because there was someone who makes my mom happy again, and I will be able to call someone dad again, I was so happy and at the same time sad because we met at the cemetery and there is my real dad.
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○ So yes, we have a very happy life with my stepfather, he drives us to school and picks us up. We found out that my stepfather has another kids from his first wife who lives in Samar so my stepfather decided to be with them and see his kids, he also had 3 children from his first wife, so the first one he took was the boy he’s second child, we are happy that we are together in the same house, It was really happy, but after a long time it disappeared like a bubble because of my stepfather’s son.I won’t tell you everything that happened to us, ma’am, because it’s too private, but in the end we resolved it, and my stepfather’s three children were reunited with him, and we live a happy life now.