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Figure 1.5. Donio's house with Donio in front.
vacation, he was so smitten with Rosita Pancito that he decided not to go back to Manila
and instead “married” Rose who was a 12-year-old girl (Donio was 22). Since marrying,
Donio has been tilling the soil. He started as hired labor on neighboring farms while Sita
worked on other farms, usually weeding. Donio's parents were tenant farmers, and, when
they were too old and weak to work, they handed the farms they tenanted to Donio who
lives with Sita in a house adjacent to the farms and about 30 m away from the road; see
Figure 1.5. Transportation to the house is either by paying someone with a motorcycle to
carry you or to ride in a side-car-equipped motorcycle.
Figure 1.6. Rice field being prepared with a tractor.