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...Family Values The Hospicio De San Jose is a hushed haven from central Manila's crushing heat and traffic. Inside the orphanage's dormitory, Sister Socorro G. Evidente points through a window to Pauline, a 2-year-old napping in the dark, thumb in mouth. When she was a week old, Pauline was left by her mother, who said she was going to work in Dubai. She never came back. Some mothers, Evidente says, "do not even bother to send any money for their kids ... The children grow up feeling like they're really abandoned...
...best work was in his drawings and murals. He considered his oil paintings mediocre, turned them out mainly to make money. By contrast, when his heart was involved, he worked for a pittance. He got $4 a day while painting the 13,000-sq.-ft. ceiling mural in the Hospicio Cabanas at Guadalajara. Today this allegorical representation of the elements ranks as his masterpiece...
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