What my Boracay is like now-like a bipolar existence
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Since the days leading to the government’s closure on April 26, I’ve been trying to share glimpses of what is most often construed as a charmed life sprinkled with magic dust—but peppered with concrete rubble dust. Thus is the biting reality of life on an island in transition. It is a bipolar existence with peaks and lows, moment to moment. In a word, it is exhausting, emotionally.
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Dario-Santiago, F. (2018, July 8). What my Boracay is like now-like a bipolar existence. Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. C1, C3.
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Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Philippine Tourism Authority Boracay Rehabilitation Monitoring Operations (BRMO) Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Department of Tourism (DOT) Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) Boracay Foundation Inc.
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