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" Collecting Family Stories,
Saving Filipino American History
By Eloisa Gomez Borah
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To Virginia Kipp,
Where ever you are,
Hope to find you soon.

A Manila-born Filipino man struggles to care for his two young daughters after his wife dies. The promise of a new life in the Los Angeles area helps him decide to join several others making this same move, but all does not go as planned for him. First one, then both of his daughters succumb to serious illness and die. Left all alone, he pursues his delayed dream and finally reaches Los Angeles, only to find that the job and housing previously arranged for him had been given to someone else. Luckily, there is a good job that needs his skills in nearby Santa Barbara, so he settles there, where he spends the rest of his life...."

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