In totally different news, my city's got a Jollibee opening up near my house in a few weeks, and I'm absolutely hopped up about it. Yes, fried chicken is a vice of mine. So is delicious pie, and they have delicious peach mango pies.

Just skip the spaghetti.

It's been ages since I've had Jollibee. I'm lucky enough to live a couple blocks from TWO filipino groceries, and there's a filipino food joint nearby. It makes me so happy. When I was a kid, I had a lot of filipinos in my life as friends and teachers, and they shared things with me that both shaped me and, looking back, I came to understand, saved my life. So I've got an endless love for the Philippines and its people, and absolutely for its wonderful food. Except their gnarly spaghetti. Anyway, that's my love letter.

I'd have been hopelessly lost to this world if filipinos hadn't found me and loved me and helped me and taught me how to swear in Tagalog.

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