Veronica is a girl who attends the school in Lingayen. She greatly dislikes Carlos. When Carlos finds a newborn baby in the grass by the school, he later discovers Veronica burning her bloody clothes in the boarding house stove, indicating that she is the mother of the baby. Veronica’s hatred for Carlos forces him to drop out of the school and leave Lingayen.
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Chapter 11
...handkerchiefs and washing dishes and clothes in his boarding house. Soon, however, a girl named Veronica demonstrates a hatred of Carlos after he finds a baby abandoned in the schoolyard. When...
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