By Maria Rosa Henson, Sheila S. Coronel, Yuki Tanaka, Cynthia Enloe
In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was once taken through eastern infantrymen occupying the Philippines and compelled into prostitution as a Ocomfort woman.O during this easily advised but powerfully relocating autobiography, Rosa remembers her formative years because the illegitimate daughter of a prosperous landowner, her paintings for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a insurgent chief who left her to elevate their childrens on my own. Her triumph opposed to all odds is embodied via her selection to head public with the key she had held shut for 50 years.
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I cannot allow you to go in my house because my children will see you and they do 16 Comfort Woman not know you,” he said. He also asked me about my mother. ” He was quiet. “I see that you are ashamed of me,” I said. I saw his face turn red, maybe from anger at the harsh words he had heard from me. He asked me about my studies. I answered him politely, not telling him how difficult my mother’s situation was under my grandmother’s command. “I gave the money to your grandmother,” he said. Then he kissed me and handed me a small piece of paper.
You must vacate this place,” she told us. ” That same day, my mother and I, as well as her brother and a cousin who were living with us, left the hut in the forest. We took our belongings and stayed in the home of one of my mother’s relatives in the same barrio. After one week, my mother and my uncle returned to our hut and found that it had been burned down, no one knew by whom. We were in a very difficult situation, and we had to fend for ourselves. My uncle Pedro was with my father, and my three other uncles remained in Pasay.
Don Pepe came every day to see Julia. One day, he asked her parents for permission to take her away with him for a while. He instructed Carmen to escort her to a hotel in a nearby town. Julia did just as her mother told her. For two days, she was with the landlord in the hotel. She did not love him and hated having sex with him. When Don Pepe left, Carmen came to the hotel to fetch her. Twice a month, until the fifth month of her pregnancy, Julia was taken to the hotel for her date with the landlord.
