When I was in the plane going to Davao there is an OFW named Eliza seating next to me. Since I don't sleep we shared some stories about the things we do. I have learned that she's an OFW from Dubai and she told me that she's just coming to Davao to baptize her daughter. She's only 27 years old and stayed in Dubai for almost two years as massage therapist.
She adopted a one year old girl left by a 19 year old pregnant woman to her mother. The child's name is "Angel Mae". According to her this child was quite a blessing for her family because her parents who were both old was both happy with the coming of the child.
The child's story is like typical "Maala-ala mo Kaya" which really full of drama. The mother of the child was only nineteen and got pregnant since she don't have the support of her family she seek help to others and was taken cared of by a stranger. After giving birth she decided to work in Ilo-ilo and left her child to the mother of Eliza. Until later the mother had no connection anymore and so the child was taken cared of by Eliza's family and until the adoption paper was processed and so now my seatmate is the legal mother of the child. She's a mother without giving birth. Good enough that her boyfriend also supported her decision.
She told me that she accepted the child because she feels pity to where the child will go if she will not accept her. The child supposed to be adopted by a rich chinese merchant and he told the mother of the child before her birth but when the child was born, she has some birth defects in her hands so the chinese guy decided not to adopt the child anymore.
She told me about how this little angel changed her pespective in life and that having her made her think of responsibilities which really impressed me like how come such person who was not a pure mother of the child think about these things wherein the original mother just left her.
Until she told me a lot of stories about the child's talent and how she made her happy. Then, later she told me that the baptism will be next Sunday and asked me "will you please come to be one of the Godmother? Then, without a doubt I said "Okay" because in my head who am I to say no? wherein fact she even accepted the child even if it is not her blood and my mind thinks that how good she is. Then, I will only go there just to share it with her. She said that she just lied that she's a single parent for people to stop asking why she had a daughter.
She is an angel to an angel!
Well, the baptism happened yesterday and I've met some characters that she mentioned in our 1 hour and 45 minutes ride.
While the ceremony is on-going, I am thinking like how many of us can take care of someone we do not really know? How many women can be a mother without giving birth? how many of us can be like her? How many can be angels?
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