![]() ![]() You were the youngest of a family coming of age in a time of resistance – the 1970s – which began with what was called the First Quarter Storm – when students rose up in protest and the government of Ferdinand Marcos responded with a calculated brutality that drove young people underground, including many of your siblings. Still in the midst of discovering my future self as a children’s book writer, I was instantly drawn to you and delighted to discover that we were distant cousins.īut though we shared a surname and relatives and both grew up in large families, our lives were a contrast. Your job at Sesame Street was so cool: you travelled through the provinces, collecting folk stories. When we first met, I was a teenage intern at the Philippine Sesame Street Project, making props, clay models and looking after the head of Pong Pagong the giant turtle equivalent for Big Bird who had tofrequently take off his head because of the heat. ![]()
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