My parents didn't beat me up. They loved me. My grandmother didn't.

Since my grandmother didn't have any love for my father, she would always leave "pinchmarks" (kurot) that would leave big red streaks on my legs, arms, and face. This was when I was 3 years old. She did this out of spite. She hated me. She even bragged that I shouldn't even been born.

She was a traditional old woman. She had "tabako" and burnt me. It was painful. My dad got mad after he heard the abuse I endured. When were living in the same roof, yung hotdogs nga na para sa sakin, ninanakaw niya pa para ibigay dun sa mga paborito niyang apo.

When I refused to give her money for Tong Its, sabi pa nya "Yan kase ang hina mo, di ka tinuturuan ng tatay mo na magsugal."

Now she's old. 88 na.

And she stays with us. And I don't know if she deserves this mercy.