faye on March 31st, 2008

but this in 1982
it is, apparently, a family favorite

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Ethel on March 29th, 2008

12:15 A.M. Sept. 30
Dearest Momsette,
I just came up from the basement to hang my washed clothes done by our washing machine. The clothes do not at all look as white or neat as when washed by Remy. The collar still looks brownish but that is all right. Anyway Miss Machine only did […]

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Ethel on March 28th, 2008

September 13, 1967
My dearest:
It’s a quarter to 8 and I’m in the library, wondering what time it is there now, what you are doing and feeling, and thinking. We have no class in English 199 so I’m free to write you. I intended to do this last night but I was so tired and I […]

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Ethel on March 28th, 2008

5:45 P.M. Sept. 26
Momsette:
I got your Sept. 13 & 18 letters today at 1:12 P.M. just after I had attended my STAT. at 11-1. I rushed my lunch; were it not necessary for this cold weather, I could have missed it just to read your letters. I ate unmindful of anyone around me. Imagine, first […]

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Ethel on March 28th, 2008

Paalam, Sir F.G. David
Jul 24, ‘07 7:19 AM
for everyone

Dr. Fredegusto David
(August 1, 1937 – July13, 2007)
I’ve always been afraid of the number 13, psychologists call it “triskaidekaphobia. I’ve never really tried to find out why, maybe it’s just the association to the superstition. Now, I finally have an answer but I’d rather that it didn’t […]

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faye on March 28th, 2008

you two had met
what a sight it would have been to behold :’(

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In Memory of one of the greatest teachers in the Philippines: Dr. Fredegusto David
this is a post from my former blog and I thought of posting it here. Some words are in Filipino but most of them are in english.
+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
1. *”Earth is the only heaven we can know.”
2. “When others deliberate to take the first […]

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Ethel on March 27th, 2008

5:15 P.M./22 /Sept. 67
Momsette:
It is Friday today. I will have no class tomorrow. So that I can look forward to a sound long sleep tonight. Now I can write you again.
I just came from the Psych. Library to catch up with some of my readings in Physiol. Psych. under Earl. I […]

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Ethel on March 26th, 2008

6 P.M.: Sept. 16, ‘67
Momsette:
What must you be doing now? I have not received any letter from you yet. [Other than a postcard from Honolulu, on which was written just my address and ‘Love, fgdavid’, which I received on September 14, I hadn’t yet received any communication from fg as of September 16. […]

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[For the first time, fg’s letter is typewritten]
14 Sept. 1967; 10:56 a.m.
Momsette:
After I had packed my things yesterday I took my breakfast immediately and went around the city once more. I took fancy of a royal, Holland-made typewriter and bought it for $57.23, tax included. It is almost new. As a matter […]

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