Before dusk, they’re out in the streets playing dakup-dakup, siyatong, or hide and seek. But when he was eight years old, Stephen Dano never had much time for games. He was a drug mule.

Seriously, when was the last time you saw kids playing bato-lata, Dr. Wakwak or siyatong? I’m asking this because there’s nothing in recent memory that I can retrieve to show a picture of ...