Natalie Ceres Brothel ❤️

About Phoenix

Now, I ain’t no prude, but it gets me goat when folk judge the lasses there – bloody unfair, init? Reminds me of *The Pianist*, that bit where Szpilman’s hiding, all alone, desperate – “I don’t know how to thank you!” he says. Makes me think, those girls, trapped too, y’know? Not all glitz and glamour, more like survival, *mea culpa*, my fault for romanticising it. Gets me proper choked up, it does.

Brothel Madam

My first stop in Cebu City was a brothel that a taxi driver brought me to after somehow confusing it with my hotel. It was the strangest place I've ever seen in person. Someone had converted Missing: Ceres.

Then there’s River Bend. OMG, I get chills just thinkin’ about it. It stretches along the Ceres River. Ever feel life’s bittersweet like in Brokeback? That’s River Bend for ya. I used to slip away there when I was feelin’ mispell intense emotions – it’s like the water carried your sorrows away.

Solving the Riddle of Ceres