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old beige curains rom he old house, bu she had insised ha hey buy new ones or he aparmen. She urned her head away rom him, sleepily aware o he hazy oulines o he nighsand o her lef, on which resided a lamp and a small picure rame sanding a litle askew. She had dused and looked a his picure so many imes beore ha she could remember each deail even wihou looking a i. i. In i was a phoo phoo o a couple couple during happier happier imes, he younger version version o hersel hersel smiling up a he man who who now lay beside beside her. her. Te glass surace o he picure refleced some o he glow rom he nighligh which was plugged behind he nighsand. Boh o hem could no sleep in he dark. She had discovered his on heir firs nigh ogeher in he old house a Kessel-lo. “Can we keep his on?” she had asked, poining a he lamp ha sood on he nighsand, and speaking slowly, or he was jus learning how o speak in English. She had been dismayed when he shook his head, “ Nee,
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Tey had all exclaimed a he emergency ge-oge arranged on accoun o he leter. “And your picure,” added Susan, he one closes meiculous meiculous wih her looks, making sure o dye her shor in he smares oufis. I was mosly her vivacious warm drew ohers o her. “He mus have been bowled over!” cried anoher had laughed. “You shouldn’ have!” she had scolded, looking a whie-haired, blu e-eyed he picure ha had be Sign up toblue-eyed vote onman thisintitle leter. Useful Nothad useful Saurnina,” read o her nieces gaher “Dear she and hey had giggled a he way she read her ull nam One o hem had grabbed he picure and said, “Hmm he’s young, Aunie, only seveny years old.” And every
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Flemish-English. When he sen her a icke o Belgium, her riends had shrieked in deligh and inundaed her wih oufis, her nieces giggling as she modelled hem around he bedroom. He looked shorer han she had imagined as he sood waiing or her a he Brussels air por erminal, holding a placard ha clearly spelled ou her name: Saurnina Dimaculangan. She winced a he unglamorous vowels, bu gave him her dimpled smile neverheless. Tey shook hands and she had urned on her amous charm. Ruben’s ace was red rom laughing when hey arrived a his house. house. Some o o his riends were here, here, wih heir Filipina wives, o welcome her. “Hallo!” Tey all gahered around her, shaking her hand. Some o he wives laughingly showed her he Belgian kiss. Once, on he righ cheek, anoher on he lef, and ye anoher one on he righ cheek again. She was delighed a heir niceness, especially when she discovered ha some o hem also came rom he oulying owns o Cebu. Afer a while, Ruben
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in he red bricked paio, drink ho chocolae a nigh, an coffee and rolls in he morning. During weekends, hey c ha nice huge park wih he whie ducks swimming in he all rees waving above heir heads. She hough o co Philippines rom ime o ime in her glamorous new loo bayan boxes, and how she would show her riends and a Mrs. Borromeo’s daugher, picures o hersel sanding le Ruben had shown her, or in he middle o one o he would surely be be visiing around Europe. Europe. Las bu no bu no being anymore. She had been a widow or clo Sign upalone to vote on this title Having someone nice like Ruben o alk o in he eve heseUseful growing-old daysNot wihuseful was no a bad idea. No a b “Yes, I will,” she answered. Laughing, he had old he his quesion over and over again in English. She had laughed wih him, saying again, “ Ja , I will m
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he said i. “We love you, Lola! We will miss you, Aunie! You ake care and wrie o us ofen.” As she lay on her her marial bed on on his cold cold Belgian morning, morning, Nina swallowed he amiliar lump ha rose in her hroa every ime she remembered her big, noisy amily. She now urned her head o he righ, and wached he sleeping ace o her husband. He looked old and ired. I had been a long ime since she had wached wached him like his. He was a lways he firs one o awaken, rom a habi o waking up early or his daily duy as a policeman. She was used o waking up early hersel, bu hese Belgian mornings ook a litle geting used o, no even afer wo years. Teir firs quarrel had been abou abou he heaer. heaer. “urn i up!” she had aken o using simple phrases so he could undersand, gesiculaing and poining a he hermosa on he wall nex o his side o he bed. “ Nee , nee! ” he would answer, shaking his head.
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unil he clamed down. He almos filed a case agains bank people people had said ha he saey deposi box cou empied by a legiimae holder o one o he keys. Onl held he key and she was dead. Nina, oo, had been devasaed. She had jus gote whole clan back back home home had already seen seen picures picures o her her lovely new lie. Te images in Nina’s mind mocked box filled filled wih Belgian chocola chocolaes es or her grandchildren grandchildren or her sisers, shirs or her brohers, and rinkes or he oSign grilled, and on sauéed upboiled to vote thisseaood title wih he whole rea. She sighed. Tere was always he balu a a he Useful Notslep useful barely ae nor or a long ime afer h Ruben would walk around he house opening drawers and bags, apping on wa lls and floors. Someimes, Someimes, he room wihou moving, jus saring ou he window. Wh
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he windows, he divan, chairs and ables in he livi ng room, each crysal drople on he chandeliers, each rung, armres and oo o each wooden chair in he dining room, he surace o he ormal dining able, he our carved legs o he dining able, crawling down on all ours o wipe he surace under he able. She wiped he op o he kichen sink, he sides o i, he grooves beween he iles, every can, botle, and caniser she could find in every cupboard. Ruben would ollow her around, hrusing he Windex spray or suraces a her ace and saying, “Use his! Use his!” o which she would reply reply,, “ Ik away rom him o wipe Ik begrijp he he nei ,” urning away he kichen able all over again. He would shu up wih a perplexed look because he had spoken in English. Someimes, she would sand by he window and wach he silen, empy sree ouside, missing he jeepneys, he smoke and he dus, even he sray dogs ha plied he busy highway she had once waned o escape rom. None o hose who had married oreign husbands, even Susan’s
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room when Ruben sood up, so suddenly, ha everyon hem. “My wie gave he key o my son?” Ruben had spok slowly reddening. His daugher sared o sep ou o he room, bu he said, “And you spli he money beween he wo o you husband, bu she did no deny her aher’s accusaion. up her mind, she urned o her aher, showing all he been hiding behind her polie smile. “We had o. o. Ohe goSign o your hadtitle said in English, no look upnew…wie.” to vote onshethis is our money, oo…and oo…and .. . .and so is he house! You bet Useful Not our share. You beter i oruseful we will sue,” so saying, sh sell o he room. Nina could no remember all ha was said. much, bu his ace had been very red. He jus looked a all looked back a him in silence. And she jus knew i w
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he window like a caged bird. Ruben and Nina pereced heir polieness, o each oher and o he world ouside. Ofen, Ruben’s riends would invie he couple o heir homes or early evening avondmaal . Whenever his happened, Nina pu on he clohes she had brough rom he Philippines, and he women would go ooh and aah, asking her where she had goten such nice clohes or here was no much o choose rom in quie Heverlee. She quickly became riends wih he Filipina wives who sar ed calling her Ma’am Nina even beore a new arrival rom he Philippines recognized her. “Madam Nina!” Claire had exclaimed. “Why, i’s Claire! Kumusa?” Claire had ur ned o he ohers and proudly said, “Madam Nina was my manager a he Hoel Miranda.” All he ohers exclaimed a his or mos o hem came rom he barrios o Cebu. Nina shushed hem, saying, “Le’s have none o ha here.” She had mean i. Unofficially, hough, she
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his gues because i was impolie o leave him alone or like elling her husband where he could sick his polien kichen door swung close, Nina urned o Pacia. “I wan o ge ou o here!” she whispered fiercely. Pa hold her hands, saying, “Ma’am Nina, wha’s he mater “ Di na ko! Di na jud ko!” she coninued, using Bis and exasperaion. “Is i Ruben?” “I canno undersand him a all! Di na ko! ko!” “Why, happened?” Pacia Sign upwha to vote on this titleasked, drawing Nina chair. Useful Not useful poined o he disposal chue. “Tank you or Nina one Belgian cockroach amily wi ll be happy onigh.” “Hesusmaryosep! Wha has goten ino ino Mr. Ruben firs husband was like ha also, Ma’am Nin. Okay, wha
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somewhere beween Pacia and his wie. “We checked hem and hey’re almos spoiled.” Nina confirmed, looking beween her husband and Bren. She had made sure o place hem way a he back o he reezer or she could no bear o dump hem down he disposal chue, which had been heir firs wild idea. “Ten le’s buy some,” said Bren, urning back o Ruben. Ruben said nohing. “So drive me o he shop,” Pacia old her husband. “You know how o drive, don’ you?” Bren responded. “You know I can’ drive when I’m alone in he car. I makes me ner vous,” vous,” said Pacia. Pacia. “I you don’ wan o o ake me, me, perhaps perhaps Ruben Ruben can?” “Bren and I are no finished ye. Why don’ you and Nina go,” Ruben replied, beginning o sound impaien. “Is ha okay wih you, Nina?” Pacia asked innocenly. “Okay,” said Nina, her voice calm and cool, as i she couldn’ care less
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Midway ino he second year o heir marriage, N called o ell her he was graduaing rom High School. “He begged me o come home or his graduaion,” s “You will go home only or he graduaion?” he as was no ha big o a deal. deal. “I is a very imporan occasion or us Filipinos,” she “Okay, we will go,” Ruben relened afer wo days. Te nex day over rolls a breakas, Nina began, “T April, which is a summer monh,” monh,” she had had paused paused or i While Whiup le hey were were eaing lunch luntitle ch laer ha ha day, she she sai sa Sign to vote on this he Philippines during summer, you know. I hope he Useful ing up a en.” Not useful “Why, where is i going o be held?” “Graduaions are usually held in he open fields be many, no hrongs o people coming in o atend,” Nina
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conscious o he ac ha she was concerned abou wha he would eel. I was only when she was on he plane o he Philippines ha she allowed he houghs she had only been vaguely aware o while in Belgium. Her mind ook wing even as he plane lifed off rom Belgian soil. She realized ha she did no have o go back o Belgium. She could leave Ruben or good. Tese houghs came and wen as she slep hrough hal he rip and atended o which gaes and which flighs she was supposed o be in during he long, long way home. Tey lay hal-orgoten a he back o her mind as she was embraced and ussed over by her riends and amily waiing a he arrival area o he Macan airpor. She ae all he lechon, ariada, and adobo prepared almos every nigh or her. She hardly slep rom all he midnigh conversaions, and he visis o he Casino. Ruben called everyday rom Belgium, and Nina ound hersel clearing her schedule around around hree i n he afernoon, which was he ime he called. She hough she did his rom a sense o duy, ignoring he
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Alhough she ried o dismiss i, she would recall when she came came back o Belgium, Belgium, on one one o her ge-awa ge-awa Te rips had become less requen afer her reurn ro her need or i having become less desperae. She atribu break she had jus had. I was bu a regular momen in an ordinary day a Le o is singulariy, she remembered ha a litle boy an been walking by when when i happened. happened. She remembered remembered h he layered, cobbled sree where she and Pacia had b remembered a sree a corner signpos had Sign up toha vote on sign thisontitle She remembered how he afernoon sun had shown on OudeUseful Mark , he shadow o auseful nearby roo roo sharply oulin Not and Pacia were were on heir way o heir car, carry ing heir abou anoher Filipina whose Belgian husband had jus “Ma’am Nina,” Pacia always spoke in heir Bisaya
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“Wha is i?” he had sounded sounded scared. “My hand hurs. I can’ move he fingers.” She held ou her hand awk wardly. Ruben Ruben had gone o he close and sared geting geting dressed. “Where are you going?” she had exclaimed. “We are going o he docor,” he replied. Tere was one hing ha Nina did no like. I was going o docors while she was in pain, or hey only made made i worse worse wih heir heir prodding and poking. “No, I’m all righ, really. Please do no le us go o he docor.” Bu Ruben had insised. As i urned ou, she had needed an operaion or a vein had lierally rozen rom he cold. Ruben had done all he chores while i was healing. healing. She moved o look a ha hand now, bu anoher pain sopped her. As i i could no help isel, isel, her lef hand moved rom where i had been lying on he matress. I crep across her somach, up owards her ches,
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Tey had gone o he hospial where Nina underw or had ermed a “simple masecomy”. Simple. She al word. Had i already already been a week week since ha firs morn ion? Each morning since had el unreal, six mornings his srange body and is missing par . Tere was some abou her siuaion, on op o everyhing else, bu she co he joke. Te bedroom door opened slowly, and a wooden r air hrough he gap. On he ray were arranged wo cup oSign seaming rolls, andon a small o her avorie Nam up to vote thisslab title he buter sood a hin vase on which resided a single Useful useful perecly yellow ulip, also her avorie. Above he ray Not enaive smile. “Good morning,” he said. “Goeiendag ,” she she said.
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oward her. Te sligh movemen juggled he ray a litle and he seadied i. “Oooops!” he exclaimed, eyes widening, looking a her, and she laughed wih him. Tey finished eaing in amiliar silence. Aferwards, he lifed he ray rom he bed and placed i on he nighsand. Ten he sood up. Nina hough he looked all rom where she was. “Bah ime,” he said, smiling, in imiaion o he nurse who had assised Nina wih her bahs in he hospial. “Wha?!” “Bah ime.” “ Nee!” She looked a him, shaking her head “ Nee, nee!” “ Ja, ja.” He sa down nex o her, and looked her in he eye. “I’s okay,” he said. She bowed her head, fingering he edges o her robe. When she looked up a him, he had no aken his eyes off her.
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his head, he sof ligh rom he bahroom lamp urning silver, genling his blue eyes and casing a golden glow o He kissed her lef breas. Ten very genly, he move sof litle kisses around her scar. Te waer coninued o gush rom he he auce, boh h mingling in swirls a he botom o he ub, as he seam
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rusling leaves, i’s simply some canapper almos lolling off a branch. In ac, i is only upon his inroducion o baskeball ha one bi o lore is finally proven rue�ha once a kapre finds his rue love, he devoes he res o lie o i and never looks back. F�� ������ ���������� and criics, Norman Black’s aeul rip o Laguna reads somehing beween cliché and archeype; made ar by classics such as H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Solomon’s Mines and o course King cheapened ed by Hollywood spors spors flicks such as Kevin Bacon’ Bacon’s Te Air Kong , cheapen Up Tere. Ye in he very real world o baskeball, i is, i anyhing, nohing new. Tere was Hakeem Olajuwon rom Nigeria, recruied on a ip by Guy Lewis or his Houson Cougars in 1980. Ten Dikembe Muombo, snapped up rom Congo by John Tompson’s Georgeown squad in 1987. Even Philippine baskeball isel has is own microcosmic ake, wih Joe Lipa and Joel Banal digging Aeneo’s college program ou rom decline in
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sreeballer who opped ou a a scan 6’5”. He urned he jerry-rigged cours by he shore where he Muro A ino he nigh. Good lungs, bu once again no nearly en Cebu, Leye, and Baguio all yielded nohing as well. “B ing closer back o Manila,” he relaed, “and saring o g Tis desperaion led him o recall a dinner he’d had w his Filipina wie Shane years back. “She old his sory monsers, like Filipino bigoos, ha were being spo Bobby laughed and said i hey were real, hey’d make gr laughed along wellon hathis nigh, bu on his our, as i Sign up to as vote title more apparen ha he migh have nohing o show Useful usefulhe’d spen�and m logged and he ens housands oNot ranchise player o sui up�Black decided he had no anyway and ook he side rip. Leaving nohing o chance, he colleced everyh
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6XL sweas and size 20 sneakers. Also called in was Dr. Felicias Pado, a UP proessor who refined Bolado’s gutural gruns ino rudimenary English. Arr iving on her heels was Luigi Bercades, a finess finess insrucor and nuriionis a UA&P, asked o ge Bolado’s cardio and fine moor skills as close as possible o he demands o proessional spors. Las o arrive was Benjie Paras. Since Black could no work wih Bolado direcly�league rules orbid eams rom personally working ou wih players players beore draf camp�he rang he ormer Shell cener, who, luckily, was no employed by any eam a he ime. Black piched him he job, explaining he he circumsances circumsances and wisely geting geting i in on record ha ha i was no official official San Miguel business business so he would would ge nohing or his rourou ble. Paras se oo a he makeshif gy m a day laer. O his own iniiaive (a poin Black sressed again and again) he celebraed “ower o Power” drew up a crash course o equip Bolado wih he skills he would mos need in he leas amoun o ime. He spen a week on he rules, going hrough
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cerain ha whaever Bolado was, he was no a kapre Ye Ye i was wha ollowed ollowed ha would urn ou ou he s o he enire srech. Wihin weeks, he jeering died dow hushed speculaion�only i wasn’ abou Bolado’s roo ion o he mysical Filipino love or baskeball, he ques lips was: Can he play? Sure he kapre is real, bu is he Te inrigue only inensified when Black and Sa o divulge anyhing. Tey declined o make saemen scouing videos. Tey insruced Bolado o hold back draf camp. Andvote as draf Sign up to onday thisloomed title closer, i became ha he was generaing very real ear. In moves remini Useful Not usefulhe Nancy Navala i ice�and hilarious absurdiy�o officials, led by none oher han Chio Narvasa, filed disqualificaion rom he draf. W haever haever grounds hey raised: ha he “male” qualifier in he rule “Any Filipin
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February 23, 2003, became he mos wached even in Philippine ele vision hisory a he ime. In a savv y move by newly-insalled commissioner Noli Eala, San Miguel opened he season agains he alk n’ ex Phonepals, which boased o he league’s mos dominan cener, 6’8” Filongan Asi aulava. Te very firs sighing o Bolado in acion is burned ino he naion’s collecive memory. How wihou seeming o leave his ee, he ipped he jumpball o heir side. How Olsen Racela dribbled upcour and calmly raised a finger o signal a low pos isolaion. How Bolado insanly sepped ino his swee spo and caugh he perec enry pass. And how, wih aulava crouched low as possible o esablish a seemingly immovable base, Bolado simply curled owards he baseline and wih hardly a hop, ratled he rim wih a dunk. Te res o he season became one big game in which every eam ried coming up wih heir own ‘soluion’ o Bolado. FedEx raded or a wo-cener line up o Andy Siegle and Dorian Peña. Shell did hem one
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Rookie o he Year + MVP debu by also winning Dee Year�laying Year�laying o res even he mos mos enduring achievem bial ahers. ahers. And no only did he he se records in virually new marks eclipsed even he impor records, which had separaed rom he locals’. I seemed one o hose imp a spors league’s inan years, wih he rules ye o be r field ye o be leveled, reaks o naure ye o be ores done, i was clear o everyone ha Bolado was simply o
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mus do o crack he inernaional scene�wroe ha perhaps he disproporionae resources would be beter spen on spors Filipinos were geneically beter-equipped or, perhaps ooball and rack, besides well-illed ground such as boxing, bowling, pool, and even chess. Quinio Henson himsel wroe in he Philippine , “While I oo dream o seeing our playplay Philippine Sar ers make i globally, perhaps i’s ime we reaed he naional pas ime as wha i really is: a pas ime.” Te lone dissening voice was longime PBA sage Recah rinidad. In his Inquirer column, column, he came ou wih a bold, grand predicion: Despite the heartbreaking non-event o Abarrientos’ NBA bid and our recent international disappointments, I believe our time will yet come. One day, the Philippines will spawn a player with the right skills, the right height, and the right heart to make it to the biggest league and restore glory to Philippine basketball. I can only hope to see him in my lietime.
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was being sold as a srengh. On he oher oher hand, hand, Bola join he world’s world’s bes a his own posiion posiion,, on his own own er Te speculaion ended (some would say ruly beg 2004. A a press conerence a he Peninsula Manila, B an announcemen: he’d received blessing rom Dand leave San Miguel, and was aking he res o he year NBA. And suddenly he public, as much i loved having he endorsed everyhing rom Gillete razors o A. Business College, had appeared in a movie (Gil Pore which became he on firsthis PBA PBA title player player no no o be cas Signhe upbecame to vote a slew o V shows (mos noably a uninenionally hi Useful kapre Not useful Pedro Penduko Penduko), and m as a ‘radiional’ GMA’s in boys were sporing his PBA jersey everywhere everywhere (som been oo embarrassing embarrassing wih any oher oher local player) player)�co �co him go. Every i maginable kind o merchandise floo
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mos accurae acs abou his lie have come rom inerviews wih ormer employees and business associaes. According o hem, hem, an an was born born in 1971 1971 o o Fookien Fookien migrans. A selselmade muli-millionaire, he made his par o his orune rom an empire o small shops: oy sores, compuer bouiques, appliance ceners, snack salls. Bu in large par, i was rom running he local NBA gambling syndicae. In he early 90s, he’d read abou he glu o European NBA signings and prediced a global boom which could prove lucraive. He pu up big money beting circles and recruied ambiious Aeneo and Benilde sudens o run hem. His orecas was spo on. By he lae 90s, NBA gambling was a muli-million muli-million peso peso indusry, indusry, and an was is unseen (and reporedly reporedly unouchable) epicener. As wih mos grea kingpins, his success lay in how he was an obsessive suden o his business. He devoured auobiographies, biographies, books, magazines, DVDs, DVDs, everyh ing ha had been or was being writen
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Yasuaka Yasuaka Okayama rom Japan�had all me wih reje “I needed o desroy any idea he had o being successul small. Only hen could I build him up o somehing o v Te acual work-ous sound like a exbook inensi well as a sorybook Rocky Rocky monage. monage. Tey Tey began wih b “I believe ha like he alles buildings, he bes ceners ground up,” an said. “So we sared wih his ee.” From a picure o he firs our monhs, in which Bolado pero 50 differen oowork and balance drills every day� Furhermore, drills limied o baskebal Sign up tohe vote onwere thisno title maser oowork echniques rom oher spors: chasséin Useful Not useful rompre sau en arriére rom encing, cr , passe arriére , , and rom ooball, and even inricae plyomeric paterns ro oruous sessions lased rom 6 am o 8 pm every day. “A he would go�urggghhhh!” an recalled. “Ten he’d w
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NBA’s leading career scorer. Bu i was also an ancien move no one had seen in more han weny years. an wen on o narrae how he’d passed i on o Bolado. o impress is laen power in his mind, an showed him endless ape o Jabbar�boh as a gangly rookie and a washed up 38-year old�acing monser ahlees such as Chamberlain, Unseld, Malone, Walon, Parish, cuting hem all down wih he seemingly magical move. From here, an augh him is inricacies sep by sep. Te criical oowork. Te necessary quickness. Te eahery ouch rom any spo on he floor. Bolado, an said, needed all o wo monhs o maser i. By hen he was aking and making i rom as ar as h ree and hal meers. And he raining ha had sared wih ee reached is conclusion wih he ball arching perecly rom he ip o his fingers and ino he hoop. Te inerview ended here, bu he res o he sory is well-known. an, i urned ou, had one las brillian move o his own. On Sepember 21,
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he Chinese players. Tey ed him every possession and ime on deense. Bolado displayed ye anoher new sk addiion o powerul dunks and elegan whirls and pu made pinpoin passes ou o riple eams o speeding c shooers. As he final buzzer sounded, every one o h dance go up or a rioous en minue sanding ovaion up or he one-hour P7,500-a-pop phoosouvenir sessi merchandise hawked a he gaes�jerseys, posers, -sh even calendar-rigged ball pens�was sold ou. Besup o to all, vote a day on laerthis antitle would receive a phone Sign Heard, who inroduced himsel as a scouing direcor o Useful usefulby wha he saw, he s Hawks. He’d been veryNot impressed ing Bolado o ry ou a heir summer camp.
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sign Filipino cener o one-year non-guaraneed conrac.” A DVD o he enire season was released released by Solar Spors in par nership wih he NBA, which sold ou wihin wo monhs (and (and perplexingly, has no been reissued). Eniled A Season o Bolado , i eaures eaures every every one o his games�o which, amusingly, he film’s wriers each gave nicknames. I begins, o course, wih “Firs Blood a Phoenix”. Played November 3, 2004, i broke Bolado’s own PBA debu record as he mos-wached even in Philippine elevision hisory, and kicked off he rend o live spors broadcass broadcass becoming promoional promoional draws a cinemas, bars, and even fine dining resaurans. He enered he game in he second quarer. Alarmingly, his firs ew possessions evoked memories o Shawn Bradley raher han Yao Ming; he was easily easily ouposiioned ouposiioned by Amar’e Soudemire Soudemire every ime and did no receive a ouch. Bu as he hal wound down o he final wo minues, Bolado managed o josle his way ino his swee spo, and was rewarded by a quick enry pass. Beore Soudemire even had he chance
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ooed and undamenally rock-solid gian? Te answe firs quarer. Bolado sared he game and o ha poin zero poins on hree bricks. Bu Bolado was being dea ishmen. He’d been blocked wice by Yao, boh on his On his oher ouches, he couldn’ even goten a sho o oo big and srong o be backed down, orcing Bolado ou. When he called or he nex enry pass, he crowd clearly, he had nohing agains Yao. Tis ime, however, he did no go o he drop-s Insead he drove o hison lef,this sarling Sign up to vote titleYao, who shuffled Bolado and he ring. Bu even his quick recovery could Usefulhe planed useful nex move: his lef oo perecly parallel o Not hen lifed his righ leg. A he same ime, he palmed h wih his righ arm, which seemed seemed o exend higher Hiting he apex o his reach, he coolly flicked he ball o
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sel changed his une, devoing an enire wo-week, our-par aricle o he similariies o Bolado o characers rom anasy genre films. Ineresingly his non-radiional origins had come o he ore once more, bu his ime in a compleely opposie ligh�he was cas as a figure o anasy, an epic archeype, a heroic avaar. And hen March 14, 2005 came. Simply eniled “Deroi” in he DVD, hey were up agains he deending champion Deroi Pisons. Assigned o Bolado was reigning Deensive Player o he Year Ben Wallace, he ianic anchor o heir eared inerior deense. I seemed o mater litle. Agains Wallace’s superior srengh and he Pisons’ vise-like double and riple eams, Bolado simply urned o his nimble ee, slipping and spinning ino posiion beore hey could smoher him. By he end o he firs quarer he had eigh poins, six o hem off unconesed Sky Hooks. As he second second quarer sared, he looked looked o do more more o he same. same. Jus hree possessions in, he managed o whirl by Wallace o cach an enry
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managemen paid Bolado he remainder o his con had done wih Jay Williams afer his career-ending m Ironically, he burden his ee had endured o ake o hi also led o his downall. As big o a legend as he was, human afer all.
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Waiing in line a immigraion, wool overcoa and over one arm, I had consanly ugged a he urlene rom my damp skin, annoyed a mysel because I h underneah i excep a ridiculously lacy bra. In he precrowded arrival hall, I was surrounded by ellow plaining abou he hea. Te pas several monhs o go rom Manila o Washingon, DC had already augh me or he changes in climae, so ha I could peel off ouer as soon as I go o Manila. Tis ime, however, I was in s DC haup I paid no atenion o title wha I was grabbing ou Sign to vote on this houghs ocused solely on geting mysel on he nex Useful Chilled by he sigh snowuseful alling ouside my window oNot I’m araid I can’ lay claim o ownership over anyhing days, so I should simply say “he” window�I had reach sweaer. Oher han ossing my passpor ino my handb
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e-mail, which had her lis o books o order rom Amazon.com as is main subjec. Prefixed by a nonchalan “bw”, she had inormed me ha our aher was scheduled or an angiogram and possibly an angioplasy on Friday, Friday, wih he chance o bypass surgery i angioplasy was deemed insuficien o open up he blockages which he docor suspeced were here. Te news had hi me like a brick. “I see you had no inenion o elling me,” I said o my moher, griting my eeh. “Well, his is all rouine, and i’s a simple procedure, we figured here was no poin poin alarming you you since you were were so ar away.” away.” “Mom! Tis is hear surgery. Any number o hings could go wrong, even i i is rouine.” “Well, why are you even hinking ha somehing bad is going o happen? How could you even le a hough like ha cross your mind?” I was oo ired o argue w ih his reasoning, so, afer inquiring where my siser was, asking why she wasn’ here, and being inormed ha she
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I suddenly realize ha i is now he end o office ho Washingon, Washingon, and ha wo enire enire workdays workdays have blinke blinke ransi, wihou anyone a work knowing where I am. I rom my litle cubicle a he World Bank or wo ull any paperwork or even inorming anyone verbally. Kn be able able o reach reach anyone anyone a he he office a his hour, hour, I decid mae Djurdja on her mobile phone. “Maya, hi! I missed you a work oday and yeserd Djurdja grees me wih a worried voice. I used my U.S. and I guess hevote caller on ID on hertitle phone regisered as i Sign up to this She adds, “I ried calling your phone yeserday, bu no a Not useful explain ha I flew home suddenly early Wednes IUseful learning ha my aher was going o have surgery. She a be back. I ell her i depends depends on he oucom oucomee o his mo I he blockages in his areries can be opened up by an
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ineviable, and heir aces reflec he knowledge ha heir loved ones have arrived a heir final desinaion. Tey look nohing like my moher, who, having come prepared wih her newspaper and a hermos filled wih coee, exudes he unetered calmness o someone who is simply waiing or her fligh o be called or boarding. Djurdja would have driven me o Dulles airpor, o his I am sure. Djurdja came o America rom Yugoslavia, way back when here was sill a Yugoslavia. On a curren map you would say ha she hails rom Bosnia, bu she has been in he U.S. or so long ha perhaps i is more accurae o say ha she is rom Michigan. She works in he cubicle nex o mine a he inernaional rade division o he World Bank. Unlike me, hough, she holds a permanen posiion a he Bank. Probably because o he proximiy and consancy o each oher’s presence, and all he conversaions we’ve we’ve had while on our our-hour our-hour rain rides o and rom New York or work maters, Djurdja has become become my closes closes riend in all o Washingon, Washingon,
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where one drives several miles ou o one’s way, i.e. on asking someone o marry you. Bryce and I are nowhe despie he ac ha I know ha when he is approaching an announcemen o ha effec, or ha he has inadve ha I use napkins and no ampons when I ge my perio whose vagina he had become acquained acquained wih o do no longer delineaes he boundaries o inimacy nowad I me Bryce six weeks ago on he DC-bound pla gon Ciy Mero. I had jus reurned o Washingon or conrac wih Bank, gone shopping a he Sign up tohe vote onand thishad title Ciy or hings ha my curren aparmen didn’ have Useful Notwih useful afernoon and I was shopping bags conainin laden ic hangers, drinking glasses, a hair dryer, and owels he nex rain ino DC. Bryce approached me and offer bags, proffering proffering his assumpion assumpion ha ha I was probab probably ly new
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I am almos alling asleep on his hospial bench when my moher suddenly looks up rom her newspaper (she has moved on o doing he crossword puzzle now) and says, “Do you know ha Diego called yeserday o ask how your Dad was doing?” She saes i like a quesion alhough she is ully aware ha she is delivering news. I don’ answer bu look a her, waiing or her o elaborae. “He offered o drive us here las nigh, bu I old him I could handle i. I old him i was all rouine and no an emergency, and ha I could handle i.” “Well, ha was nice o him.” I ry o say his as flaly as I can. “He didn’ ask i you were coming home.” “Hmmm.” “Well, i he did, i urns ou I would have given him wrong inormaion, ha you weren’. I had no idea you were already in he air as we spoke.” Diego and I broke up shorly beore Chrismas, when I came home
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spen indoors, and we had assumed a sor o accelera deaul, on accoun o my aversion o winer. Enering his aparmen, I was greeed by he smell ing. Bryce was making an omele and I was slighly d ha cheddar cheese and Oscar Mayer ham slices were were abou abou o go go ino he beaen beaen eggs. Despie Despie his p grocery, Bryce was no he sor o buy hings like prosc I suppose I shouldn’ complain. Te rerigeraor in almos empy, because I dread walking o he superm er, andup I avoid socking on title ood he way I avoid bu Sign to vote onup this jus ha, he more imes imes I visi his aparmen, aparmen, he more poinUseful o our incompaibiliy. Te way we enjoy ood i Not useful a lis o hings we do no have in common. His preer over reading is anoher hing. In Bryce’s one-bedroom bookcases, bookcases, he only reading maerial available being being h
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he various aparmens o he newly-married man and woman upsairs during heir respecive days o singlehood. Now unwaned, hese pieces o urniure have setled in his basemen like weary ravelers. I anyone who knew me were o walk ino ha room, hey would no have guessed ha I was is occupan, or here was nohing o mysel in here. Te rened aparmen on Kaipunan Avenue I had sayed in hroughou mos o law school had been filled wih books, and no jus legal commenaries or my sudies. A bookcase had dominaed an enire wall, conaining a collecion collecion ranging rom lieraure o poliical heory. Diego requenly came over o do some leisure reading when he, oo, was ired o reading cases all he ime. I would find i easy o fill he hal-blue-hal-whie bookcase in my curren living quarers i only I didn’ have o worry abou bringing he books wih me when he ime comes comes o pack up up and leave. leave. Books are heavy, heavy, and I’ve discovered he hard way ha jus a ew can make luggage exceed he
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here will be anoher hal a year down he road. “I I knew you were coming, I could have me you a he airpor. Tere was no reason or you o o have aken a cab.” cab.” His ree hand makes a movemen o ake mine, bu he sops i mid-air and shoves i in his pocke. “Tanks. I was all sudden. I didn’ plan anyhing. I jus booked he firs icke I ound online. I don’ even know how much rouble I’ll be in when I ge ge back back o work, work, or aking off so suddenly. suddenly.” “Your Mom and Dad mus be so happy ha you came home.” “Tey had no plans o elling me abou he operaion. Mom was surprised o see me. Dad doesn’ even know ha I’m here. I didn’ come in ime o see him beore hey wheeled him in.” “Well, I’m sure he’ll be glad o see you here.” Looking sraigh ino my eyes, Diego bies his lower lip again. “ I’m glad o see you here.” My mobile phone rings jus hen. Te caller ID doesn’ work on his side o he globe. Tinking i could be a work call, I ell Diego ha I have o
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“You bough rom iago beore he was sho.” Ronnie had orgoten how nosy he neighbors could be. He hough o his sash in he pillowcase. iago, his go-o guy or crysal meh, was one o hose who’d been killed. Tey said a man on a moorcycle sopped in ron o iago who was chating w ih regulars ouside his kar aoke pub. Te man sho him hrough he lungs our imes. He hadn’ really known anyone who go go killed by by hese gunmen unil unil ha ime. A day beore beore he shooing, shooing, Ronnie had seen iago in he same spo and hey’d waved a each oher. “I only go hem or he pagean,” Ronnie said. “o prepare. You know, lose some weigh?” “You’re joking, righ?” said Oliver, eyeing him as hough he were a sranger. In college, Oliver never fi in wih Ronnie’s clique: sharp-ongued baner. Tere was always somehing somehing open and raw bayos who hrived on baner. abou Oliver, as i he didn’ have ime o assume a pose, o make preend. “Don’ you have any confidence in me?” Ronnie asked. “Maybe his
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whom he’d he’d suppored hrough college, college, had lef lef o marr pregnan. Ronnie had o close down he salon and move o in a compound used mainly as an auomobile worksho sared going door-o-door, offering makeup, hair s cures and pedicures. Occasionally he would choreogra or local governmen employees who needed “inermis heir paries. One afernoon, as he woke up o he sound o me decided he’dtohad enough. He walked Sign up vote on this title o he highway, his eyes. He was abou o fling himsel beore a ruck ha Useful useful Lorega when he noiced a banner flutering a he enra Not sium, is careully pained words heralding a coronaion Te whole own would wach him compee again neighbors�who’d already writen him off as a cauio
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“Chos!” sneered anoher one, rail and much younger, wih unusually pale skin ha was almos gray. “When was he las ime you joined? Te 1960s?” Ronnie was going o say somehing lighheared when he noiced he way he youngse youngsers rs were looking a him. Te one wih flatened hair asked him, “So how does i eel o be a hank-you girl?” Te phrase summoned he humiliaing image o a conesan packing up his hings afer losing. You did no simply lose: you didn’ sand a chance. Ronnie brisled. “You carry yourselves no wih poise bu wih vulgariy. Neiher o you deserve any kind o crown!” When hey didn’ respond, he ook ook i as he he perec momen momen o leave leave wih a final barb: barb: “You “You are sill on your way, way, bu I am already coming coming back.” back.”
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“I don’ have ime. Shoo, beore my landlord sees yo Te boy skipped in ron o him, blocking his way. he op o his head almos cleared he iron spikes on he Te grooves o his ribs showed hrough he jersey’s larg “Promise you I’ll be good,” said Biboy. “ Sige na, can arrange somehing. I’m a very alened singer.” T Ronnie would know exacly wha kind o “singing” he h “Really, I have a lo o finish.” He brushed he boy he smaller enrance. “Maybe I can clean Sign up to vote onyour thishouse,” title he boy prodded. ceries. I only need a place o say. Please, gwaps?” Usefulwas abou useful o shu he gae when i occurred Ronnie Not really use some help afer all. “Quick. Beore I change my mind.” aking he bags rom Ronnie’s hands, he boy o
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F�� ��� ����� ime since he’d moved ino he compound, Ronnie go ou o bed early. Te dusy shafs o ligh cuting hrough he windows made i seem like he was in a differen world. Te dress or he Q&A segmen was ready, ready, along wih a one-piece one-piece red, red, whie, and blue swimsui paterned paterned afer he Union Jack. He’d borrowed i rom a woman riend who, in her younger years, had worked as a choreographe choreographerr in Brunei. Tere was one compeiion lef. He needed o build an armored sleeve and pair i wih an evening gown, which he had ye o secure. Biboy had asked him o download picures o medieval armors ha hey could copy. Te living room was empy, pillows and shees heaped on he floor. Te boy had already lef o shoo hoops. On he able Ronnie ound a fissize chunk o bread smeared wih margar ine. He swallowed i. Hunger sharpened his ocus. Afer conceiving his cosume, he’d begun a breakas regimen regimen o pan de sal , , wo Forune Forune cigaretes, cigaretes, and and black, black, sugarless coffee. He would no have lunch unil he afernoon when he
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o ens bu couldn’ find anyhing ha pleased him. Af Ronnie ound himsel soring hrough a bin ull o old d “How much or hese curains?” He lifed a beige wha looked looked like cascading cascading spirals o purple dahlias. Te vendor squined up a Ronnie. He was siting made or litle children. “welve pesos per bunch,” he ba and sunburned in a peroraed shir and denim pans c He offered Ronnie a crinkly, mildewed lavender drape been hung hung in a hospial. “From US and Japan. Firs-clas Ronnie wrapped he cloh Sign up to vote on this around title his orso and, w pulled anoher curain rom he heap. He draped i ar Useful Not useful a scar. In a desperae he enerained he pos momen, gown ou o hese curains, bu decided o ry anoher Inside, he ound a eenage girl munching on corn ch Finally his luck urned. Dangling rom he ceiling w
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Ronnie walked over o he kichen and ook a jug o ice-cold waer rom he ridge. He drank i all in one swig. “See, gwaps.” Biboy was holding ou a scrap o aluminum. “I copied your prinous prinous and made one one or or he shoulder shoulder.” .” Te boy had cu and ben he aluminum precisely ino an oval shape ha resembled a gold plae on a knigh’s shoulder. “Show me how you did i,” Ronnie said. “I didn’ use a hammer. Jus his.” Biboy picked up a se o pliers rom he floor. “Te hammer would’ve dened i bad. old you i was easy.” “Yes, you did,” said Ronnie. H� ���� ���� or his gown he nex afernoon. Te flaws had been mended, he size alered. Te seamsress charged wo hundred pesos, bu Ronnie pleaded wih her. He’d come o her shop hoping or a price cu since she’d been a loyal cusomer a his salon. Te seamsress agreed on
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pieces. Biboy had done an excellen job o paining he w Genly, Ronnie scooped he delicae hing rom he spray-pained aluminum and rubber pads, he armored han he’d imagined, hree cylindrical pars perecly a piece.
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Under he glare o lighs, he one shimmered on flesh like porcelain. He opped i all off wih a wig, chesnu brown syled ino peals, a gif rom a riend who had been o Dubai. W��� �� � �� Biboy arrived backsage, a ew assisans were sill srapping ape on heir hal-naked candidaes, clipping exensions and spraying producs on hard iers o hair. Te narrow space smelled o armpis; he floor was litered wih issue paper and orn abric. Tere hey were: bayos jiggling heir hands o make manly veins disappear, while ohers, once heir makeup was on, became soic. Tere were long-limbed long-limbed girly boys wih au dancers’ bodies oned afer working in pubs in Japan as “enerainers” or male Japayukis, bayos wih large breass, bayos bayos whose skin glowed rom aking a cockail o hormone hormone pills. A ew o o hem gazed a Ronnie coldly coldly like hey were in a rance. He wobbled as he boy helped him ino his dress. Te gown was sill
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Oliver shrank, bracing as hough or a slap. I sruck Ronnie wih equal amusemen and anger, a bayo rying o scare him ou ou o compeiion. compeiion. “So his is why you waned me ou o Minal.” “Don’ flater yoursel,” said Oliver. Liquid alc had around Oliver’s Oliver’s puffy jaw. His hin sideburns were pers A ew conesans, conesans, who’d been eavesdropping, eavesdropping, neighbors. “Round One�Figh!” one o hem cheered Ronnie gamely aimed his golden orearm a Olive body ugge his elbow. elbow. Signugged updtoa vote on this title “Gwaps, calm down,” Biboy said. Useful useful boy’s presence calmed him. Biboy was sill h Te Not been wih him rom he sar. He hough abou abou where afer all his was done. Ronnie slipped his bare arm and hey urned away.
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he spoted, near he edge o he second row, Biboy raising boh humbs up. Ronnie posed beore he microphone, and lifing his golden arm, addressed he audience. “A pleasan evening o all o you! Te Litle Prince said, ‘Wha is essenial is i nvisible o he naked eye.’ My name is Maria Rosario Silayan, rom he land o King Ar hur and Lady Diana�Grea Briain!” Te crowd roared. Sweeping he hem o his gown, Ronnie waved his golden arm a hem. Tis was wha he had come here or, he chance o ower in heels, look down wih unbending grace a a crowd filled wih awe, o glide as hough lie were jus as easy. Afer srik ing a las pose, he walked back o where he oher candidaes candidaes sood. sood. While Whi le he sadium lisened lisened o he nex conesan, conesan, Ronnie discerned discerned a figure rising rom he middle rows, he hick body o a man geting up rom his sea. I was he bald man, he very man who’d been waching him he oher
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had in mind. Aurora can smell he sea jus beyond hem, sharp and angy. Already she eels eels lae-afernoon lae-afernoon mis clinging o o her cheeks. cheeks. Armi, she noes, remains inviolae. inviolae. Agains sun, agains sea breeze, agains he sudden, mued explosions o flashbulbs. Miss Kuusela, hey all call. Armi!, beckon he more brazen among hem. Welcome o he Philippines, Miss Universe! Teir repeaed summons has Armi’s smile widening. Aurora caches caches her siser-in-la siser-in-law’s w’s eye and and hey boh laugh. Te universe, hey have boh exclaimed in he weeks pas. My ace has laid claim o he universe, Aurora. Tey have itered over he presumpuousness o he ile. Eigheen, Aurora hinks. T is girl is eigheen. Aurora brushes her hand agains agains he back back o her her neck, now now ramed by he small curls ha have escaped he elaborae, i severe, hairsyle. She is no one o wil in hea, and Aurora wills her body o remember he press o ha heavy air agains skin. I is jus March, i will ge warmer. Tis is nohing, Aurora reminds hersel. She is wearing her bes coton dress, in
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S�� ������ ���� writen. I is no oo lae; Auror reurned,” and perhaps he will smile when he reads her m no. She can ell him ha her hair has grown even long no one ever sees i now; she can coness ha she once ho he back o her neck as no unlike he glooming paper r long remained unread. She can ell him ha her palms r no mater he creams Armi brings home. She can ell h bones, ha he dip beween beween hem hem remains. remains. She can ell She can ell him she is here because her husband’s siser her. I will homecoming you, Armi said. And I Sign upbe toavote on thisor title one a crown! Imagine ha, Aurora will wrie he Colon useful blessing he counry’s mos-beauiul-o-1 mos-beau iul-o-1953? 953? I live w Useful Not wrie he Colonel; Colonel; my children w ill be mos assured improbably blue-eyed. Manila, Jakob old her weeks ag leting he word rip rom her ongue. Manila, Manila�
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marble surace, le her skin glance agains is veins in search o his hea. She old hersel i was no a disappoinmen ha he had no remembered. She old hersel his, as she reached ino he pocke sewn ino he olds o he skir o her bes dress, fishing ou her moher’s jade-laced comb. S�� ��� ��� husband are assigned a room overlooking he swimming pool and, beyond ha, he sea. Te waers, a his ime, have urned a mued orange. I like being by he sea, she remembers elling Jakob nine weeks ago�on he nigh o heir wedding. Ta Ta ou here here is a lake, lake, sweesweeing, he responded, an apology. On heir bed, she finally urned o him, murmuring, Never mind, and: I love you, you know. Jakob is now putering around he room, alhough Aurora has old him ha she can do his unpacking or him. Bu her husband Jakob has insised: You and I are here on vacaion. Tink o i as our honeymoon. Below her, by he pool, a couple�boh young, rom he au curves
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Wha was she hen? Te oo-young recepionis bermaid? Te somber somber cook’s erswhile errand girl? To radio had already announced he surrender o he Japa hreaded heir fingers hrough he air came away wih risked he pilgrimage back ino he shelled building, h did no ask where her moher was. Aurora, some o h here, ha column migh no hold. She acceped wha k give. Perhaps hey knew, hen, all o hem. Perhaps he now ha all o hem yearned or a reason o walk across hen oward wha once Sign up to vote onrelenlessly this titleli up he bay. A com ciadel. A he very leas, hey were all like Aurora: qui Useful nowhere else o go o. Not useful Te Colonel me hem a week afer he was assigned much laer describe o Aurora as Herculean. Tey�s o no keep reurning o wha has already been abandon
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in his ace had gone; he Colonel o he solen magazines had reurned. He was no looking looking a her. He was looking looking a he bay oo-clearly oo-clearly revealed. revealed. A he wreckage around hem, a he floor o he ballroom he should no have been seeing seeing rom his high up. Aurora slowly slowly slid slid her hand rom rom his grasp, grasp, and he le le i go. She waned waned o say, Does i no look like God’s hand once emerged rom he clouds and merely swep away he walls o our hoel? She waned o say, oo, ha she was sorry. Her hair had been bound so ighly, he skin around her ears ached or days. Eigh years laer, Aurora sighs a he remembrance o ha pain. J���� ������� �� her supper supper is brough ino he room. room. My head aches, aches, she ells him. I canno di ne downsairs. Te long rip exhaused me, I only eel i now. She is no lying.
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again, darling girl oo smar or her own good? she wo she was removing her earrings, pase hey were. And h ‘yan, anak. Kumain na ayo.
I’s your aul, moher, Aurora would always reply a sel o do her moher’s bidding, and i was wa s rue�her mo books he guess had lef, lef, dazed by her song. song. Her mo Ta’s he only reason I have his job, you know. I lull h heir books behind. And, yes�Aurora loved siting b behind he band. band. Her moher, moher, impossibly impossibly all, all, her back wih heir on on heon ables, ables, righ beside beside heir drinks� Sign uphas to vote this title book. Huwag mo ‘kong biguin , her moher crooned. crooned. Usefulhas asked useful rom he concierg or cigaretes Aurora Not or he drag o go down smooh, and or he firs hal h she sa on he bed wih her head beween her knees. S he Colonel, she hough all he while: You should see m
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no mee her eyes. You You were always so unsmiling in he phoographs, phoographs, Aurora old him. Tis orbidding, all mesizo hovering over Don Manuel. (She could never ell he Colonel ha she, younger sill hen, had hough him so handsome.) We always wondered where you’d come rom. Or, a he very leas, wha i was ha you you did. In answer, he Colonel says: I was no allowed here beore, no even when I was wih Don Manuel. Manuel. Tey barely barely oleraed oleraed him, he grea leader leader o he Commonwealh. Te Colonel laughs. I was no American, you see. Bu rom ouside he hall, he Colonel said, Waiing or he Don o come back ou, ou, I could could hear your your moher moher singing. A����� ��� �������� a cream dress rom Ar mi, or ea in he hoel’s hoel’s bes drawing room. room. Women Women o he eseemed eseemed Manila are in he room room wih hem, and Aurora lisened o he parade o names. Te lady beside her was
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me?�and you did no look away. Te room around Aurora has rozen, she realizes saw on her firs day back�he man she’d looked awa ing in he middle o he drawing room, jus beween he acloban Lasimosas and Mrs. Conde. His hair is a wearing a whie sui. His ee on on he carpe are bare. H Aurora noes, noes, and and he lines lines on his ace ace run deep. deep. Te man raises a finger oward her. I know you, he s Beside her, Armi giggles. How do you do? she says. Burly in heon hoel colors Sign upmen to vote this titlecome in, having be an unseen hand. Aurora recognizes he bellhop ha h Useful yes, Notlingers usefulover he hem o her he car�and, his gaze dress. Mr. Hudson, he men say, you have o leave now, we Te lady siting on he oher side o Aurora�Mrs.
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A handul o monhs afer ha, mere weeks afer he Japanese Japanese had surrendered, when Manuel Nieo had caugh her in he General’s quarers, racing he sun’s progress in he sky: Her hair had been bound so ighly, he skin around her ears ached or days. She waned o poin his ou o him, waned o say, Look a me rying. Te comb had been buried in her bound resses, and she she waned waned o o poin poin his ou ou oo: oo: Look, my my moher moher gave gave me his. Colonel, Colonel, his rinke in my hair was her paring gi f. Bu he Colonel was looking ou ino he bay, and i was a long ime beore he looked looked a Aurora again. He asked her, hough, his eyes ra ined o a poin oo ar away�ha gaze so inward, so apparen in is lack o involvemen in her , she realized, i was a respass o winess i�he asked her, Wha is i you do here? Nohing ormal, Colonel, she said. She old he ruh. I help around. And hen: Please don’ ask me me o leave, leave, Colonel. Colonel. Te Colonel said, Tey knock on my door and ell me o pu his place
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model-ype girl and dump her, elling her he needs ime o find himsel. Guys are assholes like ha. Which is why I’m so graeul or lucking ino Mikael. I didn’ hi nk I’d be his ype. He’s already a sophomore in college, and he’s handsome, in a roguish, isoy way, i you can see beyond he spiky hair and piercings. I didn’ know he’d already picked me ou in he crowd ha nigh I caugh his band playing in a bar off imog, he kind wih cheap beer, no oile paper in he bahrooms (bu in airness hey’re clean), and floorboards ha bounce like rampolines rampolines when when you you dance. dance. Tey’re Tey’re called called Te Bad Bananas, Bananas, and he plays bass. I’s a supid name (supposedly a ribue o an old V show none o us ever wached), and hey wear hese raty yellow shirs ha make hem look silly (hey all have spiky hair or chains or atoos), bu heir music is acually good. Well, i you like your rock music really loud and as wih pleny o growling. Each song lass maybe wo minues. You can’ even dance o hem; you can only hop in place like a drunk pogo sick
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A� C������� ��� I walked ou o he he school school gae and d cree sidewalk one day, we passed by a ree, one o ho square meer or wo o dry earh wih cemen around sleeping under i wih a jackhammer beside hem. I’d se oons. Te insrumen lay gleaming on he pavemen made all ha noise. We could hear i rom our classro floor his pas week. Like a pogo sick. Red a nd diry. A on a scooer. And he botom, long and poiny, wih a end, smoohened by all is work. “Ooh!” Charisse said, i.Sign “Phallic mbol! ” on this title upsytombol!” vote Ta’s wha Miss Maya Vallejo was alking abou jus Useful useful symbols, she said, are Not objecs ha look like a male se Anyhing ha looks like a phallus is poenially poenially said, mater o acly. itering in he classroom. “Phal lus” came rom a row behind us like a whispered cha
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able explodes wih laugher, even hose who pu heir hands over heir mouhs. Ten Krissy Lambino holds up hree fingers, her eyes wide, and we clam up. Siser Irma alumpai�Sis alumpai�Siser er alongpany alongpany,, or Irma he Impenerable, Charisse once called her, and now he hree-fingered salue is enough�passes by. Our mah eacher who also happens o be he assisan principal or discipline cocks her head a us and gives us he sare ha can mel seel beore floaing away in her gray rock. Te nex day, I have a quesion or Miss Maya: When is somehing a symbol? When is somehing, well, jus a hing? You could go crazy hinking abou his. Which is wha happens someimes in Miss Maya’s class. I you look hard enough, Miss Maya said, anyhing can be a symbol. So don’ all ino he rap o huning or symbols. Anyhing can be a symbol bu don’ don’ look look or or hem? hem? Well, Well, ha clears hings up. Our English eacher eacher in hird year did nohing bu hun or symbols. Someimes we wondered, he hree legs o a sool can’ be a symbol, righ? Ta’s oo much. Bu no! Miss
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unny eeling o being filled up bu no, and eeling you be saisfied saisfied bu you weren’ weren’,, no mater mater how hard he pum and he could keep pumping a long ime. Ian’s was nice, l curving o he righ. And he used i well, moving i slow baby yeah. Excep Excep when he finally go going going he finishe sorry wih his naughy grin, he wasn’ really sorry, he waned, no no caring i I did oo. Our orders arrive, ried chicken and butered garl my plae looks a and juicy, and I ake i wih my fingers mouh. I have driveon away a memory Sign up toovote this title o Mom slappin ae ood wih my fingers a he dinner able. I’s as yum useful I haveUseful o remind mysel no o ea so as. Charisse is da Not high rom he drumsick wih her knie and ork. I’s way pas noon, and he lone waier has dis kichen. No one else is in he room. I ake he leg, preen
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bi shor, handsome handsome in a dorky way, way, bu a leas leas he’s buil like a wresler. I wouldn’ dae him, bu I’d pay him o bea bea people people up. up. Tey were a junior junior prom ogeher, and every now and hen I see hem a a coffee shop across rom school or lined up a he mall cinemas. Charisse old me hey proba bly spend spend heir heir daes reading he Bible. Bible. Yes, Yes, I said, said, hen have wild, raunchy sex wih heir guardian angels grinning invisibly beside hem. Now she’s been gone gone or or a week. week. Melody Almeda asks i she’ll acually have he baby, and Charisse says o course, i won’ be a problem, he Frigid Sisers will have a whole nursery o hem anyway, hose risky nuns. Melody doesn’ laugh. She asks Charisse i she go pregnan, would she have he baby? O course. “How abou you, Felise?” Melody is looking a me wih her Madame Principal glare. Tis is a pass-ail exam. “I won’ ge pregnan because I’m on he pill. And because I ell every guy I go ou wih, i I ge pregnan, I’ll slice his hing off w ih my balisong.” balisong.”
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She says yes, Jenny’s pregnan, bu insiss she really doe no one does. Charisse has a cousin who’s a eamma denies he baby is his. Is he lying? Is here a new boyrie abou? No news arrives in he nex weeks, so he rumo heories (alien abducion, immaculae concepion, ase ion) ge silly.
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o orure o endure. Miss Maya reminds us ha we shouldn’ do anyhing o jeopardize our sanding, since we’re echnically sill Sagrada Familia sudens. We all promise o be good girls. Ten some news: Jenny has had a miscarriage. She spends a day in he hospial or a D&C hen goes home. We pray pray or or her, and I acually do. do. Ten i’s he las weekend o March, and we graduae on a ho, humid afernoon. A Japanese resauran, Charisse’s house, and home as he sun comes up. I wake up lae in he afernoon, my head achy. I urn on my phone, and he messages pour in. Jenny nearly overdosed on sedaives, jus as I was suffing my ace wih raw raw fish and empura. Her older older broher broher ound her in ime and go her o a hospial. I ex Charisse: we should go visi. On he ourh day he docor finally allows visiors. Te neuropsych ward is in he basemen, and i is cold. Charisse and I ge hrough hree ses o double doors, one wih a sleepy guard, beore we ge o her. A nurse
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“O course here are,” Charisse says quickly. “You’re no a,” I say. “You’re always making un o me. Now you’re lying smiling. “Daddy said i I go a, no boy would like me. my younger siser, she doesn’ ea oo much. Ta’s wh why Daddy … he doesn’ doesn’ like me anymore.” Te smile “Ta’s enough, Jen,” her mom says, finally looking “Hans lef me because I was oo a.” “Hans is a supid ucking idio.” I le i go beore I ca mom a her wihon sern eyes and grips her orearm Signlooks up to vote this title “Besides,” Char isse adds, “ he’s shor and mayabang. seer he conversaion o sae ground. I ask wha IUseful Not useful mer, wha she’s been reading, who else has come o school will give her uorials in he summer so she can finish in ime or college.
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neck. Ten I’m he one in bed, I’m he one rying o push him off me, and i’s my hand plunging he knie ino his neck. He bleeds bu he won’ die. My body burns and I sab him in he neck, shoulders, ches, bu he won’ die. Ten I finally all asleep all curled up. “W��� ��� ��� know?” I ask Miss Maya, who is in he Faculy Room wih sacks o undergraduae undergraduae exams in ron o her. She looks looks glad or he inerrupion. “Some ime ago.” “Bu why didn’ you ell us?” “Jenny’s moher asked he school no o reveal any deails. And we waned o o save he amily rom any embarrassmen. embarrassmen.” Save he amily rom embarrassmen, sure. Bu don’ save Jenny rom her own depraved aher. “Wha k ind o man would do ha o his own daugher?” “Te world is ull o bad people, Felise.” She looks like she is ired o
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places, I look up a he overcas sky. I hal expec o see a riding i as he waves a cowboy ha and shrieks like a ma his spo, nuking everyhing o kingdom come. Jenny righ here, where he bomb his, he firs o ge killed. rain, glorious rain, washi ng i all away. A bird fl is acros My ee carry me slowly pas dark classrooms, p sreched ino orever, my lie excruciaingly on hold. Si sopped. I could have urned or a final look jus beore me had died and was buried here. I didn’ mourn i he Once gaes havetitle never gone hrough ag Sign uppas to he vote onIthis cigaretes. I look up and down he sree or Charisse’s c Not ye. Useful omorrow morning m orning we’re we’useful re off o Baangas, Baangas, or our omorrow Galang’s seaside bungalow, and I suddenly miss he sw No he hrashing around, jus being in he waer. And i Charisse’s parens ound ou his morning ha she had c
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