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Drunken confessions Terminal Cases Delfin Mercado
W
e ended our childhood with beer, some popcorn and a stream of your tears. I didn’t mean to make you cry, it must have been the alchohol, not me. In any case, it was your idea to drink after the movie. Our tipsy conversation started with friendly greetings, then sharply turned from childhood nostalgia to resentments. I asked why you seemingly evaded me in the past four years, making an invisible chasm that broke down our friendship. You were hard to reach, via phone or facebook, and conspicuously disappeared from my radius of activity. You retorted that I was the one to blame. Upon entering UP, you said, I suddenly became engrossed with joining progressive organizations. You said I was always too busy, always in a hurry, to even go to class. How could you even have time for me? you asked. You told me, in the coldest tone I ever heard you use, that you thought it best to leave me be and let me “save the world.” I almost laughed, if not for the coldness I detected in your intoxicated speech. I explained what initially lured me into joining these organizations: a rare sense of belonging. After you, the people in the organizations were the only people who actually listened to the things I said. And we weren’t saving the world, or at least I didn’t think we could, I told you, with a smile I hoped you would return. But you cried. When I told you that I didn’t really change, and that I was the same miserable kid you befriended, you sobbed. Continued on page 5 »
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