I remember the morning this snapshot was taken on Lola’s lawn. It was on April 1, 1962. The frisky baby in Mommy’s arms is Suzy who for some reason came to be called “Rototeng” by Daddy. He loved giving us strange names, but Suzy’s was the weirdest of them all. I imagine it must have been the way she sounded at that time, her sucking noises as she drank her milk or the way she wailed for something. At least I was just Babset to him, which is close to my nickname. Seated is my brother Junic (“Junric”) with a toy automobile. Dad holds Dennis (“Densis”). Junic works as a graphic designer in cold, cold Calgary; Dennis, an ophthalmologist, practices in Manila; and Suzy rotootoots it with her preschoolers at the Philippine Montessori in White Plains, Quezon City. Mommy is still renowned for her morcon and rellenong bangus, but if you ask her, she’d rather play mahjongg. Daddy is up there, probably teasing the archangel Gabriel and calling him, uhm, Gobleth.
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This is funny, Nanay! Lola said that she remembers Lolo's nickname for me, Kimimoy. Tita Gi is called 'Girl' and Tito Eric 'Boy'. They don't like Lolo calling them by those names haha.
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