Who knew a bet could change the course of your life so drastically? I didn’t. But then again I was only sixteen, and being as spirited as I had been was seen as a defect on my character. Girls were supposed to behave, cook and clean, and marry as soon as they were of age. But not me. I was too spirited for that. I had too much life within me to just cage it inside my soul. But I digress. Here is how it all began for me.
My brother Theo, older sa pamamagitan ng just under two years, and I had been in a heated debate.
“It’s as simple as this, Es,” Theo had begun as we sat on the front porch sipping...