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                    [Title] => The half-remembered past
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On a recent trip to my hometown in Bukidnon, I felt like a total stranger rummaging through a strange place that I must have seen before in my dreams or in another life I had long forgotten.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136188 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103232 [Title] => Out There - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

Most people I know gush with envy every time somebody points out that I grew up in Bukidnon. "It's so beautiful up there!" they would chorus. Those who've actually been to the place are sometimes more effusive in their praise than the ones who've only heard or read about it.

Perhaps it's the magical snob appeal of everything that was once considered remote and primitive. When I was a little boy, my landlocked and mountainous province high up in the windswept plateaus of Central Mindanao evoked Darkest Africa. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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