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Mr. Costes,

I hope that you are keeping well.  I want to thank you and let you how much  I'm enjoying your journal, the Asinganian.  I always find it to be an interesting read, and is much more enjoyable than some of the books that I have to read for school.  Stories like your trip to Chinatown made me smile,
and the one about the photographer and the priest had me laughing out loud.  I also very much like a good ghost story and yours fit the bill.  You paint such a lovely picture of the town you grew up in, the countryside of the Pilippines as well as the hustle of Manila that I not only see it in my mind, I am transported there.

Thanks again, and I always look forward to the next entry.  All the best to you and Mrs. Costes.  See you soon!

Mike Bartlett

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Thank you! By the way, Mike Bartlett is a very friendly and likable fellow. He is an excellent artist and he likes creating cartoons with markers, brush and ink and the other media suited for this art form. He is taking up presently some Education subjects which someday will qualify him to teach art in Ontario schools. He is the only non Filipino I know who loves DINUGUAN even if he knows that it is made of. Lechon is also his favorite, especially with San Miguel beer. And he said he likes to sample ALL Filipino foods, except I am sure, the Asucena. His girl friend is a pretty Filipina, that's why and he would like to be "Filipinized" all the way.

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Hey ! how's the writer from Canada ? I really enjoyed reading every single line you wrote. Amazing, your memory is still working; not like me, sometimes I even forget my name ha! ha !  just kidding. Am so proud of having a friend, a brother like you who has the talent of writing. I salute you for being such an extraordinary person who has power of intellect. Aside from writing you do play musical instrument, but I dont know if you could sing  ha ! ha ! probably that is my part.  Talk to you again.

Julie

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Thanks for your compliments; Intellect? thats debatable! Oh I can sing, but you wouldn't want to hear my singing voice not unless you are totally stone deaf. Yes, you can really sing O HOLY NIGHT  to my keyboard accompaniment but we never got to do it together much because there came a church regulation not to allow solos during the Mass..But we and the group sang in other places: Binalonan ( the Pauper's Club with the Circulars ), Binmaley, plus the School convocations at the Rizal Academy. I still do the O HOLY NIGHT here in Toronto for the past 25 Christmases, I think you also do it in LA every Christmas too. Strange how one song could bridge the gap from 1966 to 2005. Now came the Internet which really could connect friends from different parts of the world!

Take care!