Marilog District, Davao City.
The warm sunny day had encouraged the two ten year olds to play along the shallow riverbanks.
They often played hooky, preferring their wild imagination to the dullness of the four cornered room.
In the forest and the wildernerness, they role-played as the soldiers whom they frequently saw passing by in trucks.
The two were impressed by the guns they saw, the valor and the aura they displayed.
Santos had been throwing stones to the river when he saw a body near the tall grasses.
"Look Gabrielle! I can see someone along the bushes"
The two children approached the body and flipped him. It was a bearded man, with a gunshot wound on his leg.
"Help...." the wounded man grunted.
"What should we do Santos?" Gabrielle asked.
Santos looked at the body. "We should bring him to the Town Doctor."
"But he's heavy! And we're just kids" Gabrielle protested.
"It doesn't matter,he needs to be helped."
And so they brave two children carried the wounded man to the nearest Barangay Health Station.
It was an act of kindness that would change their lives.
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