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Papi’s Puzzles: Love, Loss, & Logic

the Philippines Marga OrtigasApril 9, 2018 Prose

My father did the crossword every evening when he came home from work.  I think solving puzzles helped him wash away the day. He’d fold …

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Children of the Wind

Sabah Marga OrtigasMay 3, 2011 People

He was newly washed and freshly dressed when we met him.  His clothes – clean and not ill-fitting. Which wasn’t usual by “street” standards. Smooth-faced …

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“Bitun”, the Bakwit

the Philippines Marga OrtigasJuly 23, 2010 People Places

They call them “bakwits”.  Thousands of displaced, transient, residents in the Southern Philippines with no permanent place to call home. Caught in the cross-fire, bakwits …

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