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I don’t know what I did yesterday except attend a lunch meeting with my Rizal cousins.

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I have recklessly devoured salted watermelon seeds, a packet of crackers eaten with brie cheese from France given to me by my cousin, who works there, when he was cleaning their fridge here getting ready to leave.  I am drinking (while also thawing) a bottle of buko juice because that’s healthy.

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Last night, Wednesday night, I came home a few minutes before seven.

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When you look at my column’s photograph, laugh. It is an old picture taken about five years ago. Of course, I have aged. What else can I do? That’s what happens naturally in everyone’s life.

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Last night I went to bed exhausted and this morning I woke up still tired. You’d think I spent the day running yesterday when in fact I spent it sitting at my computer playing Free Cell.

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Last night, Wednesday night, I came home a few minutes before seven.

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