Father’s Doppelganger

Father’s Doppelganger

by Elmer A. Ordonez

… I remember an aunt telling me later that should I go to Villasis I would meet Ciriaco. Who is Ciriaco? I asked. She didn’t give me a straight answer, if answer it was. She just told me that my father had a twin brother who died in accident when they were seven. She left it at that.

Other relatives visiting us in Paco always remarked that I looked very much like Papa. “Hala, when you go to Villasis, Ciriaco might appear before you,” they said. They would not tell me, who Ciriaco was.

Here is the full story of my father, David Espiritu Ordonez, as told in the third person by my constant writing persona Elias, my Marlow—the better to gain aesthetic distance.

Price: PHP275.00

Author: Elmer A. Ordoñez

Genre: Biography

Publisher: Pantas Publishing Inc.