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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Hello, my darling dearest Miyang. Just some thoughts, my love -

Mabuhay

It is the natural right of any citizen to represent the good will of his or her nation. This of course is only possible if the spirit of nationhood is alive and well in the soul of that particular individual.

Mabuhay, we must all remember, is a salutation of a nation, not of any individual. It belongs to all of us to become aware of this fact that we may each become firm in our remembrance of who we are as a nation distinct but not apart from the one family of the nations of Mankind.

To say, "mabuhay", my darlingest, is an appeal to this effect: It is an appeal that is made on our own behalf to that ever present spirit of remembrance that holds an eternal vigil over the peace of our one Republic of the Philippines or of any endeavor of Country worthy of its own particular lineages of hope.

Hence, what I should mean when I invoke "mabuhay" in all of my writings heretofore is to salute this self-cognizant sense of the nation within each of ourselves; to awaken within each of us, the citizen that sleeps that the dreaming may for all of us awake.

So when any Filipino citizen says, "mabuhay", he or she should know by a heart that understands with noble force of conviction who and what this honored and beloved salutation invokes in the person of the citizen within each ourselves.

I offer this meditation to our leadership most especially, all of our political, religious, economic, cultural, scientific, civil, and military authorities who most visibly represent for our own behalf, the good will of our one Filipino nation.

May it no longer be an empty greeting to be used for purposes ignorant of its own truth -

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.
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I love my Philippines. PERIOD.

Always to always,

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