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                    [Title] => Hurdle a defining moment, and marriage is a breeze
                    [Summary] => Before you proceed, let me warn you that there is a phrase somewhere here that, taken in its Cebuano context, is kind of "bastos" in formal communication, as in a newspaper column. But I use it in the context of how it is used and understood differently, in Waray.


Waray is what my wife is, and therefore half of what my three daughters are. That fact has become not just a numerical equation but an emotional situation that effectively negates any perceived advantages I may have come to expect, as a pure Cebuano father living in Cebu.
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Waray is what my wife is, and therefore half of what my three daughters are. That fact has become not just a numerical equation but an emotional situation that effectively negates any perceived advantages I may have come to expect, as a pure Cebuano father living in Cebu.
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