The Return

By: Milvi Mae I. Candari
Instructor
ASU-SRRDM

Summary:
This is a story of two diffent persons: one male, the other female, one younger, the other older, one married, the other unattached, and one well-schooled, the other uneducated or I should say maleduacted.
These two grew up from different backgrounds, environmentally speaking and met on a boat going to Samar with different purpose in mind. Jocelyn, the female, older , married maleducated and had a complicated situation was returning to Samar to ask her husband for annulment, by hook or by crook. The man, on the other hand, the narrator was younger, unattached, well-schooled was returning home for a vacation.
Stories about men and women—this is common between them. The narator is interested about such stories through reading and Jocelyn, through personal experiences.
During their encounter, the youngster thoughts that Jocelyn was easy to get judging by her cheap appearance but he was wrong for Jocelyn meant business in her return , not for adventure orone night stand—but for her freedom—her future.


Reaction:
Appearance can be deceiving. Who would thought that a youngster from UP would find Jocelyn, 30 or so older than him, plump, unreserved, cheap-looking female appealiong even to his subconscious?
Sometimes, one strong character, may is virtousor not, is more attractive to others. Other people love dangerous women and they found pleasure—even sensuous pleasure—thinking about women’s aggressiveness in getting what they want, in any means possible. The sense of knowing what one wants in life, how one strives to achieve this is sometimes perceived by others as ones’ strength or POWER.