OK, so Papa’s permission for the wedding was firmly in place, so the wedding was on. Feyma had already said yes to my proposal before “The Talk” with Papa, with the only caveat being that I had to secure the permission of her father. In the Philippines, if you want to marry, you have to […]
A Life of Love: The talk
I hope you have been enjoying my “Life of Love” Series of articles. Last time, I told you of our arrival in General Santos City (GenSan), it was a real interesting arrival, and as I think back on it, it really changed my life. At the end of my last article, I said that the […]
A life of love. The peering eyes
When I left off on my last article of this series, we had just arrived in General Santos City, Mindanao. We were heading to Feyma’s family home in Barangay Lagao. Traveling a dirt highway on the back of a flatbed truck. It was a little bit of a different experience than I was used to […]
A Life of Love: Heading to Mindanao
I was less than a week into my first trip to the Philippines. The trip was not so much about visiting the Philippines, rather it was about visiting a lady that I had met some 6 months earlier and exchanged a lot of mail and a few phone calls with… Feyma. Of course, visiting a […]
A Life of Love: At the hotel in Cebu City
It has been a few weeks since I have written in my series “A Life of Love.” There have been some holidays during that time, so we decided to delay the articles until we got more back to “normal times”. Hope you don’t mind. Feyma had decided that she would stay with me at the […]
A Life of Love. The trip.
As I told you in my last article, in 1990, I began writing letters to Feyma, we were pen-pals. By mid year, I felt that I wanted to meet her in person. We had written to each other for about 6 months, and talked on the phone a few times. I wanted to take the […]