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The Trappistines: a life removed from the world by Hazel P. Villa

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The red roof of a palatial building jutting out of the rolling pineapple fields of Polo and Landan in Polomolok, South Cotabato was out of place and intriguing. More so when the motorcycle driver added that reclusive women lived there and all they did daily was work and pray in perpetual silence.

Both sides of the cement road going up the 35-hectareTrappistine Monastery of Our Lady of Mt. Matutum was covered with huge ferns, trees and plants that abundantly grow in the wild. Further, neatly arranged cornstalks ready for harvest lined the right slope, offering a pleasant sight upon entering the monastery property.

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Final Goodbye for a Gentle Fighter

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kristine maeKristine Mae “Tata” Guillamas is taken cared of by sister Kristine Joy and eldest brother Karl Anthony who came all the way from Palawan to be with Tata in her last hours

Farewell, Tata
By HAZEL P. VILLA

Iloilo City, Philippines

She waited for her eldest brother to arrive so that her family would be complete, and then 12-year-old Kristine Mae “Tata” Guillamas returned home to her Creator.

Tata gave up the fight against the complications brought about by Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a cyanotic type of heart disease at 2:10 am of June 30 in the company of her parents and 10 siblings at their home in No. 30 Democracia St., Jaro.

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