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House-cleaning and the overlooked “pamana” from the parents.
As I grow older, I realize much I begin to resemble the parents. Filipinos usually use the verb “mana” when pointing out the similarities of the children to their elders. The noun form is “pamana”,...
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Day Three: My mother. I woke up early in the evening to the sound of raised voices coming from downstairs. It rarely happened now; the familiar sound used to be more frequent while I was growing up. It...
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#30DayWritingChallenge: My father.
Day Three: My father. Three habits of my father which drives me nuts. Washing suede shoes. Fastidious cleanliness around the house. Fondness for fish sinigang. Three musicians my father enjoys which...
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#30DayWritingChallenge: The weirdest thing about my family.
Day Fourteen: The weirdest thing about my family. I can probably count in one hand the number of times our family went to church. The last one was maybe three years ago, during my sister’s wedding. My...
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#30DayWritingChallenge: One thing I never learned.
Day Fifteen: One thing I never learned. I never learned how to swim. I got it from my mom. She hardly goes out of the house and she’s afraid of deep water, so none of her kids grew up knowing how to...
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