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1. Daughter of Lawaan: Before We Begin
TweetForeword by Lorena Sellers I was born Lorena Llevado, the daughter of Tarcila and Loreto Llevado. I grew up in the seaside barangay of Guinob-an, municipality of Lawaan, in Eastern Samar,...
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2. Daughter of Lawaan: Origins of Lawaan
Tweetby Michael D. Sellers To understand the world that Rena grew up in, it helps to understand what that world evolved from. So she has agreed to let me write a page on the origins of Lawaan, and one...
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3. Daughter of Lawaan: The Philippines: An American Colony?
Tweet(Note: Our American education system leaves us in ignorance of the Philippine American war — a rather startling and sobering episode in our history that was a bloody outcome the Spanish American...
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4. Before I Was Born
TweetCHAPTER 4 — BEFORE I WAS BORN by Lorena Llevado Sellers My mom and dad are Tarcila Llevado and Loreto Llevado, both of whom have many generations of ancestors in Lawaan. We lived in the house that...
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5. Earliest Childhood, Two Near Tragedies
Tweetby Lorena Llevado Sellers When I think about the journey that I and so many of my “kababayans” make in our lives, it is really amazing. Today I live in California and take advantage of all the...
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Daughter of Lawaan Chapter 6: Village Life Under Martial Law
TweetIn the Philippines, a 14 year period of Martial Law began in 1972, and I was born in 1974, so I grew up under Martial Law until I was 12. There was great tension between the mililtary and the...
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Daughter of Lawaan: "I Wish I Could Go Back to Those Times"
TweetMy project with my wife, “Daughter of Lawaan”, has bogged down a little recently because of our desire to go through her history sequentially, and that puts a certain pressure on the storytelling–...
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"Daughter of Lawaan"— a childhood in Eastern Samar
TweetA year ago Rena and I began a project which we called “Daughter of Lawaan” — the story, as told by Rena, of what it was like to be a child growing up in Eastern Samar, the daughter of a fisherman...
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Lawaan’s Achingly Sweet Theme Song
TweetA few years back I came across this lovely theme song for Lawaan and had filed it away until this morning, when I went looking for it on Youtube and, watching it, just felt heartbroken about what...
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VIDEO: The Samar Island National Park and Samar’s Amazing Interior
TweetOur family (well, my wife’s family but that makes it our family) is from Guinob-an, one of the coastal barangays of the municipality of Lawaan on the southern coast of Samar. Most of the time when...
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