Penned my Thoughts

THE GENERATION gap was so clear to my nieces and me last Easter Sunday as they were all excited about the Easter egg hunt. As I watched my sister paint and decorate two cartons of eggs on Good Friday I could not think of my nieces and their happiness, as I knew we would have omelet for three weeks.

Easter eggs and the Easter bunny were not part of my childhood and I felt like a dinosaur until I opened the drafts of Jose Rizal's third unfinished novel, a manuscript known by the chapter title "Makamisa" or "After Mass." In this work written in 1892, Rizal describes how a friar named Padre Agaton dominates a small town.

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