Letters From Crispin
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When Alice sleeps over Lola-grandma’s house for Lola-grandma’s hundredth birthday, she receives a mysterious letter from a boy named Crispin, who claims to be a neighbor. But there is no one her age for miles around, except for a boy named Jason.
Who is Crispin? What does he have to do with the haunted house across Calle Nuevo? And what connects the February Revolution to the hundred years before it?
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Letters From Crispin - Cyan Abad-Jugo
CHAPTER 1
The Sampaloc Tree
It was the 21st of August, 1986—a special day for Alice—not just because it was a holiday, but because she was going to sleep over at Lola-grandma’s house in Caloocan all by herself. Mama and Papa had gone to a prayer rally celebrating the death anniversary of their hero, Ninoy Aquino. Tita Rina—Mama’s sister—had fetched Alice in the old Toyota hatchback.
During the long drive from Las Piñas to Caloocan, Tita Rina explained that she was missing school the next day only because of Lola-grandma’s special birthday on Saturday. Alice’s great-grandmother was turning a hundred years old in two days. Missing school was the least of her joys. Alice had never slept in another house but her own. And she was just ten years old. With the car window open, a gentle wind blew in to kiss her face. It smelled of freedom.
At Lola-grandma’s house, Alice couldn’t wait to visit her favorite place—the garden. She looked at the orchids, the sampaguita, and the chrysanthemums around her. These were new flowers. They only lasted a season, and then wilted away. They could never live to be a hundred. But the tree in the middle of the garden, the sampaloc, was more than a hundred years old!
Alice ran her hand on the rough bark of the tree, as if she could understand it better, what it meant to live as long as a century. She looked up at the drooping fruit, at the tiny, green leaves growing in clusters on delicate stems. She could jump up, reach for the lowest branch, and swing upon it like a monkey. Then she noticed a dark, roundish opening underside, right where the branch connected with the