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Ano ba iyan? " Our mother scrutinizes Elvis and his guitar case carefully. He stares right back at her, unafraid and polite, while she interrogates him. Are you a professional musician? What kind of name is that for a Chinese? We have plenty Chinese in the Philippines. Were you bom here? " Elvis asks. T God, he's cool. Cool enough to wake me from a self-induced h trance. Right then, right there, I decided, as Martha & the Van e dellas might sing it, to feel the burning flame. Like a heat wave, bumin in my heart.
Forget that stupid husband of yours and mairy ine," Zeke pleaded with my mother. " My mother laughed. Zeke had a family somewhere, and a wife. But where they all lived, we never knew. He used to disappear on weekends. My mother wheedled some information out of Zeke once. His wife's name was Celine and she was a natural blonde. " My mother chortled ) He refused to say anything else about his wife, but he described his children with pride. He seemed to have quite a few. His eldest son had been drafted to Vietnam.
I rummage hastily through the 3 bags for a cassette. " I ask, catching Vol- o taire's eye. The instrumental track for "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle comes on. Voltaire and I leap up from the table. Auntie Fely excitedly hands us the microphone, giggling like a schoolgirl. Vbltaire and I sing what we can remember of the lyrics. Suddenly, Auntie Fely's head slumps into her chest. She nods off into a dreamless sleep that will last only a few minutes. Voltaire and 1 gyrate our hips and roll our eyes back in exaggerated ecstasy.
