Touch
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"Touch" is a creative nonfiction piece chronicling the brief love affair of a younger queer white woman and an older queer Pinay woman, set in Metro Manila where they met. It focuses on how the literal and figurative meanings of the word touch fused and connected these women from two different sides of the world.
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