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With a deft stroke of the machete, the kid cut the sugarcane and split it lengthwise.  With a few more strokes, the segment was split into fibers which he handed to us.  Pantawid-gutom, tanggal pagod na rin. We were on our way to some of the shanties that stood between the farmers of Hacienda Luisita and the soldiers from nearby Camp Aquino.  For the lot of us, it was two things: basic masses integration, and gathering facts for a news story. I’ve only had fresh sugarcane once before, and... 

Source:  The Marocharim Experiment

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