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Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 9 minutes later[^][v]#785,585
One day during the war Lieutenant Tom came home and caught my mother in a lie—something to do with a boy she wasn’t supposed to talk to. Tom, furious, ordered her to “stand at the table.” Mom cowered with Lola in a corner. Then, in a quivering voice, she told her father that Lola would take her punishment. Lola looked at Mom pleadingly, then without a word walked to the dining table and held on to the edge. Tom raised the belt and delivered 12 lashes, punctuating each one with a word. You. Do. Not. Lie. To. Me. You. Do. Not. Lie. To. Me. Lola made no sound.
My mother, in recounting this story late in her life, delighted in the outrageousness of it, her tone seeming to say, Can you believe I did that? When I brought it up with Lola, she asked to hear Mom’s version. She listened intently, eyes lowered, and afterward she looked at me with sadness and said simply, “Yes. It was like that.”
What. The. Fuck. And this is only like two minutes into the article. Jesus Christ.
Meta joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#785,586
I didn't even know they had slavery in the Filipenes.
kook !!OPZbEQMT1 joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 39 seconds later, 12 minutes after the original post[^][v]#785,587
> It must have been introduced during the Spanish colonial era.
did you even read the piece??
kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 9 years ago, 4 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^][v]#785,592
@785,589 (Meta)
Why do you think that they couldn't have come up with it on their own?
Meta replied with this 9 years ago, 3 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^][v]#785,593
@785,591 (E)
I am now. I hadn't gotten that far yet.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 9 years ago, 8 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^][v]#785,594
That piece was pretty...I don't know. I don't know how to feel about it. I guess the ending was better than I thought? Idk.
キャサリン? !TGirlYJKXM joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#785,631
That was quite an interesting read. Sad how because this was the life that Lola became accustomed to it was harder for her not to do the chores she was always tasked with doing.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#785,632