“They say home is where the heart is. But when I think about home, I think about places I cannot go back to. Home is love and love is grief. People ask me where I’m from and I do not know which branch of my roots to say: Yes, I’m staying in Los Baños now. No, I grew up in San Pedro. Oh, but our family is from Tuguegarao.”
More of “(Up)rooted” in PDI Youngblood.
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Dana is a writing major at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
