Genre - Biography & Autobiography. You are on the page - 54
Over the last 17 years, my mom and dad have been working on creating the perfect family. It took fifteen years to get the complete package, with five separate deliveries and one that never arrived. I don't remember my older brother's birth (duh) or mine, but the rest are clear memories, as if they only happened the other day.
'Encia, a tiny mistreated orphan, marches away from Balatunong at age five. Six months and over fifty miles later she looks longingly at the happy children and workers about the mansion where Lydia lives and manages her plantation, and says to herself, "I would like to live there." Lydia, still unmarried, often prayed that she might care for her dead beloved Florencia's child, whom she had only heard might be, opens her heart and home to 'Encia. Under the hand of the Ultimate Survivor