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Breaking generational traumas
In the backdrop of a barrio in Isabela, where the echoes of ambition often fade amidst the challenges of a…
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Watercolor beauty
I am a girl who is obsessed with wearing makeup. I like wearing makeup because it makes me feel beautiful,…
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Belonging somewhere and nowhere all at once
As a kid, I always envisioned people in their 20s as having already gotten their ducks in a row. They…
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Time machine in my camera roll
There were moments in my life when I wished that I could travel back in time. I have always pondered…
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A bicycle and a lie
Unlike others, I entered college without the dream of finishing it. I said to myself that I just wanted to…
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Learning history from my English teacher
Growing up, English and history were my favorite subjects. But when classrooms were reduced to teachers’ parroted instructions and students…
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The pressure to overachieve
The price at which you acquire something determines its monetary value in pesos; however, particularly as a student, how do…
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Tick-tock
By the year 2000, I would be Mrs. X. I would be a mom. I would be an influential, powerful,…
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Just a bubble
Suppression: the presence of such a thing, especially in art, has long been a source of untruthful expression, an authentic…
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