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- From: jennyb@triton.unm.edu (Jenny Ballmann)
- Subject: Baby
- Message-ID: <p7lrb6+@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 07:30:52 GMT
- Organization: Dark Satanic Mills
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- He married a woman during his three-week trip to the Phillipines. She
- paints porcelain doll heads for a Japanese firm, and earns a good wage
- because she's painted heads for ten years now. Her name is Baby which
- is apparently not an uncommon women's given name there.
-
- Her English is fair, and her family is large and caring. He could not
- meet the family and ask for her hand because her father was up in the
- hills cockfighting, in this land without telephones or bathrooms even.
- A day later in his precious itinerary, the meeting went well, and a
- cousin translated. The cousin liked him, and helped smooth over the
- cultural discontinuities.
-
- He'd been divorced although Catholic, and this posed a problem
- unconquerable by the customary bribe. They were married civilly then
- in a Protestant church. He was hospitalized with heatstroke shortly
- afterwards and understandably enough petitioned an early release.
- She's a beautiful woman by any standards. They're waiting for
- the visa to come through.
-
- They have to arrange each telephone call at the end of the previous.
- He tells her about elk, pine forest and snow. She'd heard about
- snowballs. She asked, doesn't it hurt when you're out in the open,
- and the snowballs come down on you? He told her, the snow comes down
- in little flakes, and they float in the air. They melt on you, and
- it doesn't hurt.
-
- Merry Whatever,
- Jenny
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