Advocate | Author | Public Speaker | Child Rape Survivor
The AWAKE Partylist group left Pampanga at four in the morning, hearts unsure of what extent of devastation they would see in six hours. It was an outreach mission to far-flung Baler, Aurora, one of the towns hardest hit by typhoon Lando.
Imagine this:
A matronly woman in her late forties, dresses in semi-revealing outfits, a regular of gay and matronly bars, drinks Red Horse until her world starts spinning, smokes like a train, single mother.
We are two damaged individuals that fell so passionately, madly in love with each other. Was coming together and fighting our own…
Truth is stranger than fiction. This is an adage’ that I have heard a million times in my lifetime and yet, I never really felt nor realized the honesty encapsulated within those five words until I had a chance to take a long hard look at my life.At first, I saw myself as a child rape survivor…