Dreaming of a ‘White Christmas’

By Crispin R. Aranda

Dec 25, 2017 12:06 am

CRISPIN R. ARANDA

GROWING up in Antipolo, then a backyard town of Manila, Christmas was represented by guava and sampaloc branches festooned with white cotton, carefully pasted by liquid flour (gawgaw). The white cotton of course was supposed to be snow. Lots and lots of snow, hence White Christmas.

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