"MOM, nobody calls them parlors anymore," the woman's 30-year-old daughter said. "Now you call them salons."

This overheard conversation got me thinking about how terms used by people from my generation would quickly give our ages away. Even in Filipino slang. Here's my POV (point of view).

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