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• The Prodigal Daughter Returns
  Posted on May 23, 2010 08:00AM
  
  
  
  

  
  Last night was a complete disaster. After I walked out on Sam, I went straight home and packed with a vengeance. I was so angry—angry at Sam, at Ana, at the stupid beef stroganoff, at the stupid restaurant, at my stupid bed sheet that caught fire, at stupid everything.
  
  Nino was kind enough to drive me back to my house in Quezon City. I took everything back, except the partly burnt bed sheet and the stupid shoe racks that stupid Sam bought for me. In my Incredible Hulk moment, I tore down the stupid wallpaper that we put up a stupid lifetime ago.
  
  And so the prodigal daughter returned without a trace of maturity; with nothing to show for herself but more shoes and clothes that she didn't really need; with more emotional baggage than when she left to try to be independent. Of course my parents were happy to see me back home, but all the same, I felt that they were disappointed in me. After almost a year of living away from home, I accomplished nothing but the destruction of an expensive bed sheet.
  

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• Flashback: Sam's Arsty-Fartsy, Pre-Chef Days
  Posted on February 7, 2010 12:00AM
  
  
  

  
  Okay, here’s the beginning of how Sam came to get sick and tired of me. Seriously.
  
  I was fresh from college back then—fresh meat—and the new hire in a small design studio in the outskirts of Makati. Despite having a Journalism degree, I abhorred writing and vowed to ditch it for good. So I applied for a graphic artist position. Ten minutes into the interview, I was hired.
  

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• Home With Sam
  Posted on February 6, 2010 12:00AM
  
  
  

  
  With everything I brought with me, it would take me two days to get settled. My lips were probably turning blue from hunger because Sam decided we take a break. We went to the small L-shaped kitchenette that, amazingly, had a spacious countertop and three bar stools. I unpacked my Mom’s coffeemaker, stole Sam’s coffee, poured water, and settled comfortably on one of the stools as I waited for my coffee to brew and for Sam to finish cooking my favorite cheese omelet—gourmet style.
  

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• Moving In
  Posted on February 5, 2010 12:00AM
  
  
  

  
  “Hey forehead, I’m here.”
  
  “Good morning to you too, Nose-y,” he said. “I’ll be right there.”
  
  I smiled as I slipped my phone in the right-side pocket of my jeans. I was standing in the small lobby of Sam’s building bright and early on Monday morning. So maybe I looked like Elle Woods when she first moved into her freshman dorm in Harvard. No, I didn’t bring my Shih Tzu, and no, I wasn’t wearing pink, dear Lord. But behind me were three big suitcases, one balikbayan box, and the neatly packed skeletal base of my queen-size bed, plus the foam.
  

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• Moving Out
  Posted on February 1, 2010 12:00AM
  
  
  When I told my parents I was moving into Sam’s condo in Katipunan, two things happened simultaneously.
  
  My mom, who’s usually hypertensive, gave me an alarmingly stoic face and called her menopausal BFF, Tita Lexie, and spent the rest of the day organizing a prayer meeting-slash-exorcism for my poor, lost, tarnished (and I imagine them thinking, “very liberated”) soul.
  

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