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“I wanted to ask why you were lonely, but what would I say if you asked me the same question?”

Fiction Short Story Philippines Filipino Diaspora Quebec Manila Almost Romance

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

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“All instincts told me to walk away and not look back. My life had been of numbing peace, of interminable serenity, and here was the promise of disruption, a little intermission in the monotony that my life had become.”

Fiction Short Story Philippines Filipino Diaspora Quebec Manila Almost Romance

Author:A.A. Patawaran

“There was no anonymity in Manila. It was a big city, but it was a small city in many ways, too small for me back in the day. If I were in Manila, I wouldn’t be caught dead in the company of a beer-drinking stranger like you, especially like you in your bad boy jacket and your bad word shirt and your scruffy beard on a Saturday afternoon.”

Fiction Philippines Filipino Diaspora Quebec Manila Almost Romance

Author:A.A. Patawaran

“But Manila was another life. It was another time. It was universes behind me. The woman who lived there, sheltered and shackled and dreaming of another place, such as this, this magical spot under the start-of-autumn sky adorned with brown leaves preparing for their eventual descent to the earth, this quiet side street near the busy, bustling Old Port in old Quebec, was no longer me.”

Fiction Philippines Filipino Diaspora Quebec Manila Almost Romance

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

“What were you thinking when you looked at me, scanning my face like the cover of a book? What was I thinking every time I looked away, as if those eyes would devour me, betray my secrets, steal my soul, reveal the pages of my life like an open book?”

Fiction Philippines Filipino Diaspora Quebec Manila Almost Romance

Book:Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

Source: Manila Was A Long Time Ago - Official

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