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Grace Padua

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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LOVINGHEART RECIPE

Grace Padua

Many people don't realized how fascinating is the world of cooking food. but at the same time many people also realize that cooking is an art called the culinary arts. Cooking has evolved into high end shows to win a prize hosted by experts in cooking who are called chefs. We didn't call our mothers to be a chef when she cooks for us but can we also call them experts in cooking? Of course, why not when they cooked many food specialties from main dish to desserts. There is a typical family in the Philippines particularly in the northernmost...

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SECRET WEAPON

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Emily is obsessed about praying. Her mother Katrina taught her how to pray every night to ask favors from God. The first thing that she asked is to protect her overnight and also called the angels to watched over her. Emily always followed her mother on how to say her prayer. When she entered her kindergarten class at a private religious school she was asked to recite a prayer before meals which she carried it home to pray for God's blessing during their meals. Emily didn't understand at all why her mother is very anxious to let her say...

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WASH AWAY

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The word forgiveness is mostly used by individuals who feel guilty of their past actions. But to whom are they asking for forgiveness? Let us see here why an individual needs to ask for forgiveness. Lucio is watching their baby daughter confined in the hospital due to malnourishment. How come baby Crystal is given intravenous vitamins and the doctor is shaking his head worrying about the child's condition? Dr. Marisa learned why Baby Crystal got sick because of the negligence of Lucio to provide her needs. He prefers to hangout with his...

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THIRD PARTY

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Many stories always revolve around love. and usually the underlying question is what is love? Love can be defined as blind and lovers cannot see their ways, It is a mutual feeling between two lovers . It can be indirectly directed to humans and other living things and in the unknown field of spirituality. As early as childbirth upon coming out into the world , he was born out of love from his parents there is no human being without a man and a woman. When the sperm of a man is united with the egg of a woman inside her womb it develo...

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WILD DREAM

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Rita and Martin has been planning to go on a holiday to change their daily work routine. Rita secured a group tour from a travel agency. This will be the first time that they will go for a cruise going to the Caribbean Islands. Looking at the itinerary there are four countries where the tourists are going to visit. Rita has been dreaming to visit some other countries and gain some experience to know other cultures and to see the famous landmark of the land and what would be the most important thing they wanted to see during their travel...

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UNWANTED LOVE

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Portia didn't like to mingle with boys since she was a child being brought up and raised by a pure Christian parents who go to church every Sunday and very active in all the church activities in their locality. Portia attended the Holy Mass inorder to develop her good character learning from her mother. What does she do when she is attending church? She listens to the sermon of the priest. That a good child must obey their parents. She must help them with house chores and if their is a request from them to help them to earn a living she ca...

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BE THANKFUL TO GOD

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Gratitude is a word that most of the time is misunderstood. To whom do we give our thanks? I can't remember when I learned to say thank you. Maybe when I entered grade school saying thanks when I receive a present. This present is given as an exchange gift from a classmate. This is then my beginning to understand the meaning of acknowledging something when I received something. As I grew up I experienced many times saying thank you to my teacher, to my parents and those whom I am in contact when they give me something. If I asked help...

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MARDELIA

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The Cordero family is well known for their political influence in the whole region. Imagine the sitting President of the country is a Cordero family member the youngest son of Ricardo Cordero who was a past president. His son Marlon followed his footsteps to enter politics. President Marlon Cordero wanted his son Martin who is a lawyer to meet the daughter of his vice president Warlito Dancel . President Marlon is thinking that if both his family and the vice president will merge together he is feeding his vision about their political life w...

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THE SEARCH

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In a far away land across the sea there is a kingdom ruled by an old king. His name is King Ban and his wife Queen Luc. His kingdom is a big island that he has to set a time to visit his prople and know what are their needs and to find out how can he help them. He is very particular about the early education of children so he must see to it that all the children in his kingdom can go to school. They have free education from elementary to high school. In one of his tour of duty he left Queen Luk and their little Princess Oyra at the palace...

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LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

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The family of a sugarcane magnate was having their family dinner at their patio to enjoy the summer breeze while their house helper was serving their meal, There were four elaborate plates for the family. Dr. Edward Cornejo was seated at the head of the table , his wife seated at his right hand and two of their children were seated at the left side of the table. Mrs. Carmela Cornejo was cheerful to greet her children since they came home for their summer vacation. Their table topic while eating were their activities Melchor now twenty f...

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ANIMAL OLYMPIAD

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In the animal kingdom each specie has to set up his own territory in order to survive. It is like having a king and his army to safeguard his territory that no other specie could intrude to its area of jurisdiction that's why there are king's guards to look into the the security of the area. How wide is given to two guards armed with their bows and arrows of KING WHITE RABBIT in their proper uniforms so their fellow rabbit citizens can recognize just in case they sense an emergency or there are suspicious characters that may appear in thei...

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NO TEARS SORROW OR PAIN

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Elisa must have lost her strength and people may see her in her black dress and be the center of all attention to see how she handles the last moments to see her husband go. Last night she arranged the car with her friend to bring her to the funeral home to be with her daughter in a limousine. Elisa was wondering why the other members of the family cannot join her, Many people have gathered already aside from family and friends Elisa was surprised to see her manager not her supervisor. She approached him and escorted him to the displaye...

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LONG AWAITED TRIP

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Mitzie had been preparing this trip to go and visit her aunt. It would be an extraordinary trip. Imagine how exciting it would be to travel by plane in which she could only visualize in her imagination, that place where a king reigns over many nations. But a week before her trip his father was rushed to the hospital and she had to decide to cancel her trip to Europe. She learned that his Father Salvador according to the attending physician of his father had a suspicion that he has cancer, MItzie felt an agonizing fear knowing his father ...

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FAMILY DRIVER

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My Father Greg got his driver's license a year after he arrived in North America. It was really hard for him to adjust at that time upon arrival shocked of the winter cold coming from a tropical country. His first step is to work and how much was his disappointment when he learned that his job would be a mall cleaner. I didn't know this made him cry when I learned the garbage bag that he threw up to the garbage bin burst and he was hit that he almost fell to the ground. He felt angry landing on this kind of job whereas his job where he cam...

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PARADISE LOST

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Who would know the origin of all knowledge if not the Written wo Why written word? This is the only basis that man can discern his own existence on Earth. They call the written word to be scriptures written by scribes. Before the written word man worship the physical world . Their gods are numerous. They build temples to venerate them in the form of deities. They ask favor from these individual deities. One deity whom they present their offerings in exchange of a favor they are asking such as conceiving a child or simple favor of healing...

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