Mactan, 50 Years Ago and Now
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Mactan Island is a far cry from when it was overrun by American GIs during the Vietnam War.
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Batang Santa Cruz
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A working-class neighborhood in frenzied, urban Manila is a proper hometown, and why not?
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The Hometowns of My Boyhood
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Be tickled by writer Oscar Peñaranda’s childhood recollections.
Read MoreNueva Ecija State of Mind
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Of loved ones, rice fields, fruit trees and memories rekindled by warm homecomings.
Read MoreTupig From Tarlac
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A sweet, sticky rice snack is part and parcel of the author’s memory of her hometown.
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My Bacolod of Sights, Sounds, Smells
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She thought her Philippine hometown was nothing to brag about, until from California, on the phone with mother, she heard Bacolod’s rain again.
Read MoreMy Lolo’s House
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The author remembers a crowded multifamily home, where fertility was never a problem.
Read MoreIn Search of the Cupang I Used to Know
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They say you can never go home again, but writer Ed Maranan has kept going back to his hometown of Cupang, Batangas since the 1950s.
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