Last August 2008, I had a chance to visit my family back in my home town. I basically grew up in the province of South Cotabato but I could see from the distance the place where I was born in Sultan Kudarat. These two provinces are actually separated by Allah river as shown in the picture. There in the picture you can see a bunch of bamboo trees along the river bank, it is the place (with x mark) where I did my first cry the first time I saw the world. Now, the place was totally vacated by local people. Most of the people who used to live around that area moved to the town of Sto. Nino because Allah river was slowly moving towards their habitat. The rice field on the picture was used to be a river as years passed by it becomes dry and people eventually cultivate it for farming.
A little bit farther from my birthplace is the place (indicated with o mark) where my father was killed in 1968. We used to have a farm in that area called Mudon.
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