I NOW live in Oxford, a university town in Ohio, where Miami University is located. I am on a writing fellowship at Miami University to finish my novel.

But even in this small place, the American and Philippine connections are palpable. I was withdrawing money from an ATM near Kroger, a supermarket, when the woman behind me chatted me up.

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