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1)What is even more surprising to foreigners in the Philippines is that it is a country, perhaps the only one in the world

2)buys and sells a cigarette stick, half a head of garlic, a drop of hair pomade, a banana, Lilliputian

3)Like all those kids who risk neck and foot in traffic to sell a cigarette stick at a time or the old men who haunt the sidewalks all day to sell a puppy or lantern or a pair of socks , 

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