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20 Comfort Woman she lived in misery because she was an obedient daughter. She feared her mother. When Carmen raised her voice, Julia cowered. “I promise, Rosa, that I will not treat you that way. I will not do to you what my parents do to me,” my mother said. “I became strong and happy only because of you.”
3 h The War Begins I �� fourteenth birthday on December 5, 1941. It was a Friday. My mother cooked special food—noodles, leche fl an and menudo—to mark the day. We had the meal with calamansi juice cooled with ice. Three of my classmates were there, as were my uncles and aunts and some neighbors. Three days later, Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japanese troops. The Second World War had begun. On December 8, 1941, a Monday, I went to school as usual. I was in the seventh grade and would have gone on to high school in a few months. When I reached the school, I was surprised to see so many students outside the gate. The nuns had just announced that the school was closed because war had been declared. So I walked back to our house, which was about half a kilometer away. I saw many people walking to and fro, not knowing what to do now that war had erupted. The next morning, my mother, our relatives and our neighbor evacuated to a village near Ipo Dam in Bulacan. The following day, December 10, Japanese troops landed in Luzon. We fl ed to Bulacan because my uncle was a truck driver who worked in a cement quarry near the dam. He took all of us, with all our belongings, on board his truck. As we were driving out of Manila, I thought of my father. I saw the other children who had their fathers 21
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