SEAFARER stories are often threads of hope, struggle and courage woven together in a great fabric of adventure across the vast oceans of the world. They are a fount of anecdotes told in a succession of emotions.
They are, as history proves, good storytellers.Missing in most of these stories, though, is another thread — that of the mother who carries another world of emotions the moment her child leaves home to become a seafarer.Mila Lago is one of them.Lago is a typical Filipino mother — nurturing and protective. Letting her brood leave the nest is an inescapable ordeal. Nonetheless, she let them sail. After all, she was a seafarer herself.
Lago, 65, used to be a hospitality crew for the American cruise line Princess Cruises.She knew that such floating luxury hotels were more than equipped with all the comforts needed and wanted by men. She also knew, however, that such luxuries were reserved only for passengers.'My daughter and son are hospitality crew for the ships of Norwegian Cruise Line manned by C.F. Sharp Crew Management.
Woe And Wonders Of Being Seafarer's Mother
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