GOING to houses which had volumes of encyclopedia as a kid made me wish I could have my own book collection as well. Since then, I have been saving for books, be it Zaide’s Rizal textbook or Great Speeches for the Young Orator. When I won third place in the First Ramon Magsaysay Essay Writing Contest in 1998, I saw a small book fair in SM North EDSA the next day and spent almost half of the P10,000-prize money, which made my mother cry because she wasn’t able to use it for the other needs of the family in Tarlac.
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