The man who (thought he) looked like Robert Taylor was a a tired old Filipino immigrant called Solomon King. He experienced all types of pain: physical pain, emotional pain, mental pain, and his impending death when he read the news below.

"Hollywood, Calif (AP) -- Veteran movie actor Robert Taylor, leading man for some of the screen's most glamorous actresses, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 57.

He died at 10:30 a.m. at St John's Hospital in nearby Santa Monica. With him were his physician and his wife, actress Ursula Thiess, who had spent the night there.

Taylor, billed as "the man with the perfect profile," starred in more than 70 movies and set a Hollywood record with his 27 years at one studio."

Once established the psychic twins become a placeholder to tells the sad story of the Philippines and America.

Bienvenido Santos (1911-1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila, but his family is originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years and is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.

Selected literary works include Villa Magdalena (1965), The Day The Dancers Came (1967), Scent of Apples (1979), Praying Man (1982), Distances: In Time (1983), What The Hell For You Left Your Heart in San Francisco? (1987), Memory's Fictions: A Personal History (1993).

Publisher:
New Day Publishers, Philippines

Publication Date:
1983
1995
2000
2011

Format:
Softcover / 8.75 x 5.75 inches / 175 pages / BW

Language:
English

ISBN: 971-10-0098-9