Once upon a time, there was an old woman named Magda, who lived in a barrio in Bulacan. She was very wealthy. She had no husband or children to pass on her wealth, and her time was coming. A priest brings her a mystical rose to see if God has pardoned her sins.

This is my last episode until Fil-Can Heritage Month in June. I would like to take the time to work on my book, research and learn Cebuano. I started the same time last year, inspired by Philippine Folklore vol. 2, and I'm still calling out to the people who created this book to print and publish it again. Your words and work took me across many worlds filled with gods, goddesses, monsters, human and painted both the infinite and finite that our ancestors were teaching us about. Filipinos have always been doing this work in telling our folktales and mythology, and the creators of this book lived in Vancouver BC, where I was born and raised. I wish I had lived in the time they created this, because I believe now most of them have passed on, which I mourn in my own way. I tear up every time thinking about them. I still cling onto the hope that one of the elders or their descendants are out there and want to preserve history as well, and hopefully they see this.