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War Everlasting
I am writing this blog a block from where my father passed in 2003. When I go home every day, I walk past the Veteran's Hospital in...

bino realuyo
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Thank you, Leonard Casper!
The late literary critic and professor Leonard Casper was from my father’s time. He was two years older than my father, born 1921. Both...

bino realuyo
Apr 1810 min read
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Mysterious Ancestry
In the Philippines, we have this saying "lukso ng dugo." Lukso (jump/leap), Dugo (blood), the ethereal mesh of "leap of faith" and...

bino realuyo
Feb 236 min read
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Poker, Our Dearest Sunlight
Poker Realuyo 2010-2025 For over a decade, I took a month off from my FT job and wrote in the Caribbean. Â In my 20s, I was trying to...

bino realuyo
Jan 254 min read
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Augusto Roa Realuyo b. January 19, 1921
Augusto Roa Realuyo was 21 years old when Bataan Fell in 1942. World War II is a horrifying memory. That a 20 year old Filipino who was...

bino realuyo
Jan 193 min read
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Pitching #BataanNewJersey on Social Media
#P2PPIT flyer on BlueSky I just joined BlueSky. I was hesitant to start another social media platform that I can't manage on a regular...

bino realuyo
Jan 183 min read
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Post-Novel Writing Research About WWII
This month, on the 19th, my late father turns 103 years old. Â In 1941 when he found himself stuck in Bataan, he was only 20 years old....

bino realuyo
Jan 123 min read
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New Spirit, New Year
Every year since I was 19, I have spent time in another country to find a piece of Life I could grow old with. Wisdom is the seed of so...

bino realuyo
Jan 12 min read
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My Mother's Face
Virginia A. Realuyo ca. 1970s Today is my mother's birthday. The picture above is one of the few pictures we have when my mother was very...

bino realuyo
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Dear Blood: World AIDS Day 2024
An offering for today, a Rebel Sonnet "Dear Blood" I came of age in the 1990s in New York City during the AIDS crisis. The era created...

bino realuyo
Dec 1, 20241 min read
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Gratefulness
Many things to be grateful about in a difficult world. I am grateful for my research in the past three weeks on literary agents. I have...

bino realuyo
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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New Website, New Books
It's Veteran's Appreciation Month. I can't think of a better time to create a new website. Since I started writing Bataan New Jersey ...

bino realuyo
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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