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It is a sadness I share, but also because I feel that with art and culture, while it is easy to identify plagiarized work, i.e., whole paragraphs that are copied off an original, it’s also quite easy to see where influence and mentorship make for works from different artists that become but pieces to a big puzzle of sameness. And too there’s just this: in Third World Philippine culture, where mimicry is what makes money, are any of us original?

The challenge to us is to level up our capacity to respect the choices a woman like Rhian has made, falling in love with the wrong man included.

All of us who fell into the trap of bullying him are all, at the core, tragically hopelessly homophobic.