*** IN THE CITY WATER FLOWS UPWARD
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FOUNTAINS , seeing one was one of my earliest dream. Having been born and raised in a farmland seven kilometers from the town proper, our only source of news was from the Jueteng Kubrador who walks through the barrios daily collecting bets and entrust the bets to their Cabo Collector in the town headquarter. Every late afternoon my grandfather invites him in for some merienda and listen to his stories about what's new in town. He amused us with his stories especially his occasional trip to the city of Manila about a hundred kilometers away.
He was a great storyteller describing the city as place of tall buildings, streets full of people where you can buy anything you want and parks where water flows upward and dances with the music. The place called Luneta was a hundred times bigger than our farm where you can ride sidecars and travel by Calesa. It was a dream world and I always ask my Lolo to one day take me there so I can watch the dancing fountains. It was different then, we have never seen anything like it and for a young mind innocent of the world it was a dream fulfilled.
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