The Wedding That Became a Homecoming
What was meant to be Mira’s happiest day turned into a haunting revelation. During her lavish wedding in Makati, she fainted mid-ceremony after spotting a familiar birthmark and a handkerchief embroidered with her own name in the groom’s mother’s purse. It was the same one left with her when she was abandoned at an orphanage 20 years earlier.
The truth unraveled painfully — Doña Isabela, Miguel’s mother, was Mira’s biological mother. Forced by her family to give up her child, she had lived in regret ever since. Mira, trembling, feared she was about to marry her brother, but tests later revealed Miguel was adopted — no blood relation.
The wedding was canceled, replaced by a “Homecoming Day.” Instead of vows, Mira and her mother stitched the two halves of that handkerchief together, symbolizing forgiveness and reunion. Miguel placed the ring back on her hand—not as a promise of marriage, but of truth and healing.
Quote: “Some weddings bind two souls. Ours mended three broken ones.”
