Mommy, Mama or Nanay?
During my generation, it had become a status thing. How one called one’s parents was prima facie evidence of one’s social and economic status. Calling one’s parents Nanay and Tatay meant you were poorer than those who called their parents Mommy and Daddy, and decidedly PROVINCIAL too… I have heard a lot of mothers say, “Syempre Mommy (or Mama), para sosyal.”
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you 
