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Dear Albert,
Thank you for the moving story of Philomen. You have deftly captured the
essence of a Goan lifetime in a few brush strokes of your pen. It has a
quality of an African fable, because it is so simple, so true and so tragic.
It confronts us with what constitutes our meaning in life. Parents never
leave us, in life or in death. Parents, specially in the evening of their
lives, need to be assured of love in their lifetime. Little can replace the
virtues of a mudhouse, or the love of a mother.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
Brian
Author, 'Last Bus to Vasco:Poems from Goa' (2006)
Cited in the Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature
