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[1 Jan 2010 | 8 Comments | ]

January 1 is Brit milah:
The Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord

While our Jewish brothers are celebrating this biblical feast, I thought of sharing my personal story of crossing the bridge to manhood:
(WARNING: MAY BE TOO GRAPHIC FOR WEAK STOMACHS)

TRIVIA: Majority of filipinos are circumcised. It is a Filipino tradition to conduct this operation between the months of March to April. It is socio-cultural norm to be circumcised before a man reached adulthood.

1990…
Out of peer pressure,
childhood friends dragged me to go to the dreaded Mang Sipyo

THE MANUNULI!
(a non-medical person who …

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