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...every woman has made the heartbreaking choice to leave Mabini. Shyrelyn Esguerra Diaz - "Baby" to her friends - still lives in Little Italy with her 5-year-old son Magnus in a comfortable home with high ceilings and a grassy yard out front. Sitting on the couch next to his mom, Magnus lets out a wheeze of concentration, his chubby thumbs flying on a video game, while Diaz wonders aloud whether she should move to Rome, where she can earn more money and join her husband who already works there. When Magnus first overheard her saying that her work permit...
...make more money even as a domestic worker, or stay in Little Italy and raise Magnus alone. "I know my parents worked so hard for me to finish school so I could get an education and not go into domestic work," she says. And Diaz does not want her son to go through what she did. "The income I could earn could not compensate [for] the loneliness," she says...
...Even when parents return, the sting of abandonment can linger. In a dimly lit living room in suburban Manila, Rebecca Lucero watches her teenage son, John Patrick, bolt past and pound up the stairs. Lucero says he is a good kid. He does well in school. But, she adds, "I feel uncomfortable around him." She gave birth to her son, now 18, when she was working at a Holiday Inn in Abu Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued...
Three weeks later, his 47-year-old son Randy, also a dialysis patient and a heparin user, suddenly had symptoms similar to those that had killed his mother. Shockingly, he died on Jan. 15, as his wife Colleen, a dialysis nurse (they had met at the clinic years earlier), frantically and futilely tried to revive him. An uncomprehending family buried Randy Hubley next to his mother in Toledo...
...BabyNames.com that included four names we were already considering: Elijah, Jude, Dashiell and Edison, which is particularly weird because we totally made up the name Edison, since it's the town I'm from in New Jersey. My main concern with these is that they'll all get my son beaten up. But Moss said, "When we've done our surveys, people say, 'I was teased about being Anna.' Kids will tease about anything if they don't like you. Don't worry about it. Unless it rhymes with a body part." Which, sadly, ruled out my favorite choice: Smesticles...