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Writer's block and Thy Brother's Wife

It is a condition where writers whether professional or not, is losing their capabilities to write or produce new work. Maybe they're running out of inspiration, no good topic to discuss with or they might have something to be done beforehand. Though I'm a so-so writer, I feel that I have this condition because the last post I wrote here was about six months ago ( 25th EDSA 1 anniversary ) already. My birthday had already passed by too but I wasn't able to blog it out because I cannot sum up the words all the things I want to say. Well with these past months of my blog shut down, I did some pocketbook hopping where I borrowed some books from my mother in their school library. I had just finished reading Thy Brother's Wife by Andrew Greeley and the story was quite okay. This secular novel is about adultery, incest and sacrilege and Father Andrew (yes, he's a priest for real) was stouthearted enough to divulge all these against-the-church stuff. The gist of the