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The Tooth Fairy and The Girl With A Big Heart

By Rex Harder

When the school year is about to end, Gillian Rae, my six-year-old daughter had a loose tooth. The next day, after placing the tooth under her pillow, the tooth fairy gave her a dollar. Now proud of being a ”big girl” she showed her dollar around Elizabeth Meyer school classmates and friends.

Recently, while looking for my checkbook, I found her dollar placed in a zip-lock inside my drawer. I called her ask her what she want to do with money from her tooth fairy. She answered, “hmmm….maybe we could give it to the Red Cross!” The way she said it was in a very casual manner, but the thought caught me by surprise! This maybe because of all the news of the great Midwest flood in the US where she witnessed on TV, not only the devastation and misery brought about by the calamity but also the people helping other people. And most recently, during the height of the typhoon that swept through the Philippine islands, especially the flood in Iloilo province, a place in central Philippines and the ancestral home of her mom and dad.

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I was heartbroken as mike and I took a stroll around Iloilo City yesterday. There are no exceptions whenever nature call. Typhoon “Frank” is no longer here in Western Visayas memories of the disaster will surely take long time to heal. I myself was not expecting this kind of calamity knowing that the PAGASA stated in their weather report that the typhoon will not going to cross the country. But it turns out that nobody could ever predict the weather. No matter how high tech the equipments are this calamity only proves that danger cannot be foreseen. Now we know how fast the weather can change.

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