“The most Filipino thing about me is the way I look. Having grown up essentially in American culture, for the longest time I’d identified first as an American and second as a Filipino.”

— Jason Tanamor

Esquire Philippines Interview (2020)

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Filipino-American Author and Writer 1975

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