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"Sinigang" by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran

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The short story "Sinigang" is written in 2001 by Marie Aubrey J. Villaceran a professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the Univeristy of the Philippines, Diliman. The story is all about Liza, who narrates how she deals with the issue of her father, having an affair with another woman, and how it emotionally separates her from him. The story was started when Liza and tita loleng start their cooking on Sinigang. Tita loleng asked questions to Liza that leads her to reminisce her memory of meeting the mistress of her father, Sylvia in the burial of her half brother, Lem. And when she talks to her father, as they continuing to cook sinigang. She remember this strong anger she felt towards her father and the big question 'WHY?' to him but sadly her father did not response to it. So the cooking continues and she remember the times when she and her sibling used to prefair kangkong meals with their mother and that is also the time when her half br...