Last August 13th, I made a post about my dear grandma, and though I had no comments from that post at all, I received feedback from my friends about it. So, now, I’m sharing one of my “lola” moments again.

Have you ever asked your granma if she were pregnant? Well, for starters, I wasn’t in high school neither in grade school when I asked this question. I remember asking when my younger brother, Jayson, was still in my mom’s womb. I was only 4 back then, and I had these little times sitting on our retail store’s “very” low bench just chatting with my granma while watching the leaves and trash burn from nearby. I kept asking my granma about being pregnant because it was still a mystery how my mom got that bloated and how come a baby got in her tummy, kicking like a “Bioman” character.

“I can’t be pregnant anymore,” she replied in Tagalog.

I was a bit confused so I asked her this question. “Why can’t you? You’re a woman right?” And then, the blurry memory started. I dunno if it’s because I didn’t understand a word she was saying, but I guess the discussion ended up with her telling me that a woman gets pregnant when she kisses a guy. I asked her again, being this unrelenting eldest grandson, “So granpa doesn’t kiss you anymore?” She replied with her signature giggle, the one that sounded like she was playing with her phlegm. “Pilyo kang bata ka! (You naughty little man!)”

I still didn’t get it. But anyway, life went on, my brother was born, and after a few years, my granma had this unforgettable scene in the house when she was chasing my granpa with a knife because she caught him with a girl. I think I was 6 or 7 back then. Of course at that point, even without mom telling me what happened, I knew granpa was not making granma his wife anymore, and we were screaming and yelling and wondering how to stop her (I can’t remember if my dad was still abroad or something). Somehow, we managed to calm her down.

Now that I’m a grown-up, I guess I understand her woes back then. Maybe granpa wasn’t kissing granma enough. (Of course that was metaphorical.)

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