I just met her a couple of days ago, she is also a filipina with two sons and married to an american. After doing some bible sharing with her in our house , i asked her how she met her husband.It was just a simple question, but it opened up old wounds that i'm sure haunts her from time to time and wished that she could bury it into oblivion.
Her story goes on like this...
She and her husband today were penpals for a couple of years until one day, they decided to go on their separate ways. She met another american, got married and settled in Missouri. After a year, they were blessed with a beautiful baby girl. It was one winter morning on a weekend, when her husband decided to visit a relative in a nearby town. Being too tired working from the previous night, her husband told her to drive.She was hesitant at first coz' she's not a seasoned driver with that slick ice in the road, plus she just started to learn how to drive, but with her husband's prodding, she gives in. With her husband and daughter in tow, they began their journey.
It happened so fast....
While trying to maneuver the car in the hilly road , she lost control of it, it spins and hit a tree.She had a vague recollection of what exactly happened, but she remembered clearly the lifeless body of her husband sitting in the passenger seat when she glanced at him .Her daughter was not moving either. She only got scrapes and bruises but the loss of her loved ones were the scars that even time cannot heal her anguish.
Her story doesn't end there.
She was sued by her mother -in law and the siblings of her dead husband for wrongful death. I can't imagine the pain she was suffering at that moment. It seems like her world was crushed and she had nobody to turn to. She was alone trying to fight with her deaceased husband's relatives whose interest were only for the money that she's about to collect from the insurance company. The life insurance money she got from her dead husband was enough to pay for the law suit and it left her penniless. Aside from that, her mother in law forced her to get a life insurance policy and make her a beneficiary.With her lawyer's advice, she didn't get it and instead, ask help from her long lost friend.............
With no one on her side and grieving, she remembers her penpal and contacted him. Good at that time , he was still single and had no romantic relationship with anybody. They rekindled their relationship and got married. Now, they're blessed with two kids.
It's a very tragic story and I applaud her for being brave amidst her sufferings. And I'm happy that she found happiness again though she longs for her daughter.It was a very traumatic experience, that being inside the car makes her shiver and scared.
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