MY cheeks were suddenly numb from the cold the moment I walked out of Gatwick Airport. After a 14-hour flight from Manila to London, I arrived at Gatwick at four o'clock in the morning of late August.
There was none of Manila's boisterous airport crowd, where every overseas Filipino worker who leaves the country is sent off by a busload of family, relatives and friends.
I still remember the scenes on the day I left, when a small boy just refused to let go of the hands of his mother who was going to work as a domestic helper in the Middle East. The mother's eyes had already turned red from crying, but the young boy just refused to let go. He just gripped his mother's hand and refused to cry. He just looked at her with his round and liquid eyes. I averted my gaze and instead arranged the things inside my checked-in bag.
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