95:"...a short piece that uses a first-person narrative technique that speaks directly to its reader. The voice is even pedestrian that in its familiar tone the reader is simply drawn to it. The voice simply asks that you listen as if an old friend or relative is about to tell a story. It is a story that found thousands of listening ears since it first appeared in 2004. The story is at once familiar yet enigmatic. In “re-telling the truth through the words of a loving mother and by using sex as an impulse zone” is perhaps what makes it fresh, intimate and endearing.
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The royalties from the author's sole-authored books, “The Dove Files” and "Minsan may Isang Puta at Iba Pa" paperbacks at Barnes and Noble Online, went to two "Project
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and passed the CPA licensure exam. and the daughter of a late cancer victim who graduated cum laude in April 2013, the rest was paid forward to baby Mark who underwent a liver transplant in March 2013.
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