Proustian, the baby bear, peeked by the hospital door, where she saw her papa bear holding her mama bear's hand.

"I'm sorry," her papa bear said. 

"I thought you wanted to stop being a brown bear that's why you decided to move to the white bear's forest."

"But now I know you never really stopped being one," her papa bear said.

"And now I need you to wake up. So that you'll know mama bear, " Proustian heard her papa bear said - "that I never stopped loving you too."

"A children's book?" Tanong ni Joohyun kay Jennie. "You want to go with a children's book?"

"Yes, a children's book," Jennie said. 

"The most important lessons are taught in children's books. 'Yung pagiging family with gay parents, it was a children's book which told us that it's okay - Ang Ikaklit Sa Aming Hardin ni Bernadette Villanueva Neri. Yung climate change, isa sa na-highlight ng urgency niyan ay yung "Where did the fireflies go?" na isinulat ni Renee Juliene Karunungan."

"And the whole Harry Potter series, Joohyun. From fighting tyranny to telling us it's okay to be different, sa isang book for adolescents natin nalaman. The value of friendships, of vigilance, sa Winnie-the-Pooh, also a children's book," paliwanag ni Jennie.

Tumango-tango si Joohyun. Life's greatest lessons - the ones often forgotten by adults - are learned, absorbed, when we were still young. Nung bata pa tayo.

It only makese sense then na ang pagtuturo ng