The salmon in me

By Mauro Gia Samonte

Oct 11, 2016 12:22 am

MAURO GIA SAMONTE

Sometime in 1963, I wrote a letter lauding some deed of then-Secretary of Education Alejandro Roces and sent it to The Manila Times, not really expecting much that it would be minded at all. But wonder of all wonders, the letter got published in just a few days. And there, in letters bold and bright, was my first-ever byline in print.

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