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Friday, July 27, 2007

♥ love in the cornhusks

this is my first time posting a review... particularly, a review about a short story. 'Love in the Cornhusks' by Aida Rivera-Ford. the story was about tinang who after two years went back to visit her senora with her baby. her marriage with the bagobo only seemed to produce more poverty and misery. whilst her visit her senora acknowledged tinang that she has a letter in the drugstore. she got the letter and headed back home despite the heavy downpour, but paranoid that the letter contained bad news, she put down her baby by the camansi tree and read the letter. it was though, a love letter from a former flame, amado. her love rekindled whilst reading the letter, and it seems that it was amado she loved all along. however, her reminiscing was interrupted when she noticed a green snake slithering and saved her baby just in time, now ignoring the letter in the ground. i love how the author wove the story, her magic captured me, i smelled the kitchen spices and the agua de colonia and felt the heat of the sun and i wasn't even there. the author tries to point out that despite our idealistic dreams and wishes of our past, it is important to move on and think about the present and the future. be unwavered and don't let fantasy take you over, because it will make you ignore your real responsibilities in life.

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