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MAGGIE ✧
is on page 249 of 416
The very ending scene of the Ang Dalagang Pilipina chapter quite literally just cemented this book for me as a guaranteed 4 stars — it is beyond me how succinctly Castillo writes and makes you Hero. I can’t believe 😭😭😭
— Aug 19, 2025 10:53AM
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MAGGIE ✧
is on page 332 of 416
The chapter (section?) “True Love Comes for Mine Fujiko,” and a line on p. 313 that made me cry:
“When he got on the phone, he said, in the way that a person could say a name differently from anyone else in the world, simply because it was that name, in that mouth, passing between those two people, the deep-in-the-guy intimacy of siblings that Hero had never felt: Sol[y]—”
The author you are, Castillo.
— Aug 28, 2025 11:01AM
“When he got on the phone, he said, in the way that a person could say a name differently from anyone else in the world, simply because it was that name, in that mouth, passing between those two people, the deep-in-the-guy intimacy of siblings that Hero had never felt: Sol[y]—”
The author you are, Castillo.
MAGGIE ✧
is on page 201 of 416
BRO LIKE ARE YOU FUCKING FOR REAL RIGHT NOW ☝️😭 LIKE STAND UP, HERO, WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING RIGHT NOW BFFR
— Aug 08, 2025 01:58PM
