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i'm not really ilocana, only half. i love phil. history. thing is, i wasn't satisfied with the history i was taught as a young person, and since age 36 have learned more by collecting oral histories, going to the spanish documentation, reading latin american writers on their history and culture, reading contemporary spanish historians who study the phil., and reading u.s. filipinistas like wm. henry scott. it's very difficult to talk about this with my fellow filipino creatures today. so i'm starting by soliloqizing (sp?).