GUIDE TO DALAGAS: Part Four, Ugly Filipina! The Unacceptable Dalaga

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I could have drawn my teen self thinner but who would I be kidding? My blubber was the result of all the irresistible food my Filipina mother (a great cook, we're talking kare kare, prawn and pumpkin coconut curry, roast pork, paella and pancit - and that would just be lunch!) shovelled at us in place of the love and attention we really needed. I guess after all she had been through, she didn't have much left to give.