Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them
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