Emeniano Acain Somoza Jr

  1969 -
  City of Birth:
Cebu City, Philippines
 
 

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It Has Been A Rough Year

I am adding this additional chapter to my introduction, because after I initially wrote the introduction, it was very difficult to come back to it and try to make sense of all that I have experienced through the various stages of my life and the trials that I have endured or overcome.  I wish ...


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The Birth of Charles Leonard Wiggins

The story has already been written for awhile on my blog "From the heart of Praise, Prayer and Perseverance. 0; Here is a link to that posting, Below are the pictures of the blessed event.   http://fromthehea rt-dotwigg.blogsp ot.com/2008/03/an other-2-prayer-re quest-answered.ht ml


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My Entire Life

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Memories Of My Lost Siquijor
Now as the leader of the keeners drew her lungs out for the final bravura, mother pulled out her pristine handkerchief and, in the middle of that pestiferous sonata, she blew her nose with a resounding honk, making it the ...
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1973
1982
Quilt of Dreams
Now as the leader of the keeners drew her lungs out for the final bravura, mother pulled out her pristine handkerchief and, in the middle of that pestiferous sonata, she blew her nose with a resounding honk, making it the more ...
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01/01/1973
12/31/1982
One October Ends
Our life wound down a rocky course like the river flowing under us. We sprung from a forgotten past, ebbed with the tides of hunger, tragedy and, death; still, it was the best of times… When Mother got home earlier than usual, ...
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01/01/1980
12/31/1982
Inroads
By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with red eyes. I never got ...
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1980
1991
Degrees of Decadence
Foreword: Subtitles excluded, this is a 750-worder literary triptych of sort, divided into three pieces the subparts each has 250 words. The whole piece in its entirety (all pieces thematically linked to each other) can stand ...
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01/01/2008
06/30/2009
My Hometown : Review
I come from a fishing village on the third smallest island of the Philippine archipelago - Barangay Canlambo in the municipality of Larena located at the northernmost tip of Siquijor Island. Because we are in the tropics, ...
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05/15/2009
06/15/2009
Aspects of Friends In Love
"Doing the right thing is not always the most pleasurable thing to do. Sometimes it means hurting those that we care for, no, those that we love the most." We were lying on the grass at the Luneta Park as we scanned the ...
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01/01/1984
12/31/1991
Little Boy With Fish On A String
Little Boy With Fish On A String I see a suckling – Sucking on a piece of string Silently staring into space Or, listening to hungry flies Buzzing over his pasty face Blue under flickering fluorescent While the ...
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01/01/2008
12/31/2009