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It was 1977. I was 33 and was having a whopper of a mid-life crisis, a time when you feel everything is wrong with your life, the whole thing needs changing, in a blink of an eye you might walk away and never return.

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How old I have become! My eldest child is in her late 40s, my youngest is 40. If I had stayed married, we would be approaching our 49th wedding anniversary.

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Now it can be told: The creative juice and imagination of direk Joey Javier Reyes was put to an acid test when he got his latest assignment, Till My Heartaches End, Star Cinema’s “Valentine in October” offering which is topbilled by Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson in their third big-screen outing (after First Day High and Paano Na Kaya?).

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To me Christmas doesn’t feel like very much this year. My apartment is a mess. I am sorting my mother’s clothes and they are heaped on a big chair in my living room. I still don’t know what precisely to do with them. 

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Christmas Eve in the morning I packed my clothes and left for my daughter’s home. She had invited me to spend the eve with her and my grandchildren, two of hers and two of her oldest sister’s.

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