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Connecting Flights: Filipinos Write From Elsewhere
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Being away defines what and where home is.
Connecting Flights: Filipinos Write From Elsewhere straps in the words of talented contemporary Filipino writers as they set off for places known and unknown, where the dream destinations beckon and the traveller never stops moving.
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