Before anything, there was Iloilo. Located on the island of Panay, the placename of seafaring Iloilo derives from the older indigenous Hiligaynon word, “irong-irong:” nose-like. In a small municipality in the province, there was a boy named Cresencio. Cresencio had a flock of siblings, maybe a carabao. He was born in late 1920, right into

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