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“The ignorant can be just as wary as, are indeed often warier than, the educated. The peasant girls are not blind; they know full well what has been happening to their like in the big city. But, knowing that, they are still willing to risk their bodies, their honor, their very lives in a trip to the city -and what drives them is despair, utter despair.”

I don’t know how old I was when I bought this book. So much of it just went over my head the first time I read this. I don’t think I even knew who Joseph Estrada was. I’m enjoying this more the second time around. Im in Chapter 4 now which features a story about witch doctors and it’s the most interesting so far!

“…heart of solitude, and collecting here from all over the country the uprooted souls that now moan or giggle where once the carabao wallowed and the frogs croaked day and night”.

“But the wind remembered when the sighs it heard here we’re only the sighing of the ripe grain, when the cries it heard here were only the crying birds nesting in the reeds, for all these new suburbs in Makati used to be grassland, riceland, marshland, or pastoral solitudes where few cared to go, until the big city spilled hither, replacing the uprooted reeds with split-levels, pushing noisy streets into the

I'm just not ready to finish the final chapters of this book. I've purchased this in 2019; it was the perfect book for someone who is deeply interested in the mid-20th century and has a liking for crimes and investigation. As a person who can't finish a book in one sitting, this anthology is everything. I hope I can find more books like this.