Prairie Schooner, March 22nd, 2006
I want to tell my daughter Bina, You are a great-great-grandniece of Jose Rizal, poet, novelist, revolutionary, martyr, a surgeon in Europe and a linguist in nineteen languages living and three dead--ancient Sanskrit and Greek and Latin--and he had six mistresses in six different countries the portraits of whom you can see in many restaurants in Old Manila, and you will see his name on every main street and on the side of every jeepney. This is your heritage. Your heritage is an ancient and schooled tradition. In my childhood we girls spoke Spanish in the home and in the school with the quick ...
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