It was my usual routine to go to town to search for food, even in abandoned gardens or yards when no planes were overhead. With my jute sack, I roamed the streets for bananas, papayas, coconuts, or anything “eatable.” My eyes popped wide open when I saw papaya and banana trees full of fruit inside […]
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1994 Memoir – 137. Manna From Heaven
In the month of May when the rains started falling, the rice paddies became full of water. Dry season was over! Rainy season had set in. Our evacuation site was flooded! Food had become very scarce. We had been out of town for five months, eating what we had stored for rainy days. Our relatives […]