My textbook never told me this. #RememberML@40.
by koihernandez
August 24, 2012
As I’ve said in my previous blogs, some people who lived during martial law claimed that it was it was one of the best years of their life — I repeat, THEIR life.
I don’t know cos I’m guessing my parents haven’t decided to get married that time — hell, I don’t even know if they were dating then. All I know is, what the stories tell me. What my textbooks never did.
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The economy and tourism was booming! — or so they say. If you’ve known as much as that reading a typical elementary or highschool textbook, one could say that it should have been one of the happiest years of the Filipinos!
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