00:00But not everyone can choose Ampunin.
00:03There are some who grow old inside the Ampunan,
00:07like Kuya Beda.
00:10Do you want to be adopted?
00:11Before, we wanted to be adopted.
00:14We wanted to be adopted, but we were too old.
00:19Why did you want to be adopted before?
00:21So that we can have parents.
00:25We can love our parents.
00:30Why were Beda and Tabo not adopted?
00:35Maybe because they are too old.
00:39It depends on the matching of the parents.
00:44Sometimes, there are categories that they ask for.
00:49For example, special children.
00:51This is what I want.
00:53So usually, if it's not in the category
00:57that the adoptive parents are asking for,
01:03usually, the DSW does not give it to us.
01:07Kuya Beda has hydrocephalus when she is pregnant.
01:11It's a condition where the child's brain is filled with water.
01:17It may have an effect on Kuya Beda's thinking.
01:22According to him, there is a mother who takes good care of him.
01:27So the first thing he remembers is his mother.
01:31Yes.
01:32My Spanish, my Castilla.
01:35A Castilla mother.
01:36That's your mother?
01:38Yes, before, it was Sister Maura Tayabal.
01:44When you were being injected,
01:45was it to remove the water?
01:47Yes.
01:49How long did that take?
01:52About three to two weeks.
01:56Yes, to inject.
01:58When did the water run out?
02:01It was a long time ago.
02:03My child was still young.
02:04They took good care of me.
02:08The next day,
02:12my eldest daughter who was ten years old,
02:16When we were 10 years old, we were trained to work as nurses.
02:22It was like a bright future for us.
02:30Even though he was not chosen to be a priest,
02:32the mothers of Hospicio de San Jose felt the love and need of the young Beda.
02:40Are you serious?
02:41Yes.
02:42Really?
02:43Yes.
02:44Even when you were young?
02:46There were a lot of different classes.
02:49No, it was called the boys' department.
02:54In Spanish, it's called pequeños.
02:58Pequeños.
03:03Years later, he made friends inside the hospital.
03:09But he felt sad again when his friends left him.
03:16Who are your best friends?
03:20Benito, Imnalaldo.
03:23Benito?
03:25He is no longer with us.
03:28How old was Benito when you adopted him?
03:30Seven years old.
03:32How did you feel when you adopted Benito and sent him to the U.S.?
03:36It was okay.
03:38It's like they have a family.
03:41Like a mother and father.
03:43How about you?
03:45It's okay here.
03:47We are quiet.
03:50We are like a family.
03:55I don't go anywhere.
03:57What do you mean you don't go anywhere?
04:00I don't have a parent.
04:01I don't have anyone.
04:03Do you want to meet your parents?
04:08Your real parents?
04:10It doesn't matter anymore.
04:13I'm okay here.
04:19Sixty years later,
04:22Benito is still in the hospital.
04:24Benito's father, Kuya Beda.
04:28He was a janitor in the buildings where he used to play.
04:33His mother remembers that she used to play with him.
04:37He was the one who opened the gate of the house where his parents left him.
04:45Benito's parents are still alive.
04:52Did you get mad at your parents?
04:54No.
04:55Even if they left you here?
04:56No.
04:57Why?
04:58They are your parents.
05:00You love your parents.
05:02You love your father.
05:05Even if they left you here,
05:08you still love them?
05:09Yes.
05:11They are like God's children.
05:12We are God's children.
05:15We are a family.
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