Mail-order brides

by The Manila Times

Jul 22, 2024 12:22 am

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The tropes were familiar in the early days of our marriage.

People said we had hooked up so Ivy could get a green card. Or that I was trading on my white privilege for a sexy Filipino bride. One of them even found its way into a newspaper following my published account of discovering romance across the sea.

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