The other day, a friend from the Philippines shared a photo with the caption, “Happy ‘2nd’ life 2nd anniv!” with me and two other friends. It was a photo of two bottles of vodka taken three years ago when the four of us and their significant others went to a club to celebrate my birthday in advance.

Today marks my grandmother’s 71st birthday and I still miss her every now and then. She passed when I was twelve. Sometimes I’d wonder how life would have been like if she had lived longer—would we be sharing the same room until now? Would she […]