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The beautiful place is adorned with plants and flowers. Tall and majestic trees of every description stand in perfect symmetry, the air is pure and the surrounding is like a noble place. Children wear nothing and enjoy playing in the mud made by the heavy rain. With the arousing emotions and sweet smiles painted on the faces of these little angels, parents take pleasure of looking at them, with their stomach aching.
Ati, that is what they are called in our Hiligaynon dialect. They are those dark skinned, short small of frame, kinky haired, snub nosed, and with big black eyes. Everyday is like a rat-race living, eating food from the garbage polluted by the dust just to surpass the painful affliction of the so called life. They are nomads searching not only for food but begging among people with kindness and love. All they care is to survive and not to let the feeling of sadness stayed in their hearts. They do not struggle on material things for possession, all they want is an endearing tale of happiness and everlasting joy for their family.
Whatever they tried to hide, they can never let go of the fears of the people they meet. Thier whole being has been ravaged and taken for granted, but still what they do is to disregard it. they believe that no matter what attemp they do to chage the wrong impression of others, it would only give more reasons for people to criticize them. How unfortunate that the life of these innocent angels is destroyed slowly by the different unhealthy judgement made by some of us. Their dreams are wasted and spoiled by the unmerciful words of the passers by that made a bad impact on their kind heart.
From the mountain they have walked a long way to reach Roxas City. All that they want is to live productively and blissfully. However their purpose was defeated. They are now in the streets asking and waiting for a penny given to them by the people with good hearts. Nothing is more special to them than the respect, love and acceptance of people. Their family might be one of those families scorned by the society, yet their family remains optimistic that someday they will no longer be hated by others instead they will be loved and be accepted for who they really are.