The words printed on Mama’s T-shirt on the faded photographs caught my eye as I was going through our photo albums. There were about three pictures in which she was wearing this white V-neck T-shirt with red printed letters. DON’T TOUCH ME.

You see, we owned this tailor shop in Noveleta, Cavite. The name of the shop – TOUCH Casual. It was located right at the center of town and since my parents were the only tailors in town, they were very well known and people called them Mr. and Mrs. Touch.

DON’T TOUCH ME. The word Touch was in bold letters. I wondered if that was my mother’s cry for help.

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