- Nanny was a Dragon-Lady (in the best way possible)
- Daddy was a lamb (in the best way possible)
- Lolo Nando was a WWII guerilla in the Philippines, in a bolo battalion
- A Japanese officer wanted to marry Lola Nene (then a young widow), instead she ended up with her 2nd husband, Lolo Nando
- Lolo Nando and Lola Nene's first husband were distantly related cousins and close friends
- Daddy was a dancer
- Nanny wanted to be a nun
- Lola was a saint
- Nanny could sew the best outfits ever
- Lola could bake like nobody else
- We were all scared crapless of Nanny
- Nanny loved to island-hop
- Nanny didn't suffer fools
- I think Nanny and Daddy loved each other
- When Lola died, practically everybody in town turned up at her wake and funeral
- The telegram from Tita Noemi telling us about Daddy's death: "Daddy (has) expired"
- Lolo Nando died before I was born, when Mama was in high school
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