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Manunulat🖋
mánunulát : (tagalog) a person who writes or have written.
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“Why'd you choose to be a writer?—'
my mother asked.
And I answered
with a pen in my hand.
“To smile with the absence of joy, is the same strength it is, to write about love and pain. To know that, empathy is toxic but inevitable, is something worth being known for. I write, my dear mother—because it is easier to become someone else’s whisper than be the lover they left behind. And every bleeding sunset or unsung ocean wave and petrichor morning becomes the boldness of every ink that left it's mark upon my paper-skin.”
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~~~°~~~
“Why'd you choose to be a writer?—'
my mother asked.
And I answered
with a pen in my hand.
“To smile with the absence of joy, is the same strength it is, to write about love and pain. To know that, empathy is toxic but inevitable, is something worth being known for. I write, my dear mother—because it is easier to become someone else’s whisper than be the lover they left behind. And every bleeding sunset or unsung ocean wave and petrichor morning becomes the boldness of every ink that left it's mark upon my paper-skin.”
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