Yellow, Blue, Brown, Red: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Short Stories |
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... keep a dog or dogs for long , however . Always we lost them to outsiders in mean , violent , inhuman ways . A piercing death howl in the night , a screeching getaway by a jeepney or a car and a dog is stifled at the end of a wire . Or ...
... keep a dog or dogs for long , however . Always we lost them to outsiders in mean , violent , inhuman ways . A piercing death howl in the night , a screeching getaway by a jeepney or a car and a dog is stifled at the end of a wire . Or ...
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... keep it . I own land and I like to see it grow ... bigger , bigger . . . in a manner to satisfy me , to give breadth , space . I did not acquire mine dishonestly . I paid for every square meter of it . Because I love it more than others ...
... keep it . I own land and I like to see it grow ... bigger , bigger . . . in a manner to satisfy me , to give breadth , space . I did not acquire mine dishonestly . I paid for every square meter of it . Because I love it more than others ...
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... keep Narda from decrying with some asperity his having been left alone with nobody to look after him . She also rebuked her father for allowing such a thing to pass . " Nonsense , child , " Lolo Ambo protested , " I am all right . There ...
... keep Narda from decrying with some asperity his having been left alone with nobody to look after him . She also rebuked her father for allowing such a thing to pass . " Nonsense , child , " Lolo Ambo protested , " I am all right . There ...
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