<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496904" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Waltz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I develop'd into a healthy, <br>strong youth (grew too fast, <br>though, was nearly as big as a man at 15 or 16.<br>Our family at this period moved back to the country, <br> my dear mother very ill for a long time, <br> but recover'd. <br>All these years I was down <br>Manawan more or less every summer, <br>now east, now west, <br>sometimes months at a stretch. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At 16,17, and so on, <br>was fond of debating societies, <br>and had an active membership with them, <br>off and on, <br>in Dipolog and one or two towns <br>on the province. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A most omnivorous novel-reader, <br> these and later years, <br>devour'd everything I could get. <br>Fond of the theatre, <br>also, in Ateneo de Manila<br> went whenever I could -<br> sometimes witnessing <br>fine performances.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in 1991 work'd as credit chief<br> in a national bank, moved to <br>legal circles, in many cities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, when little more than thirty, <br>and for a while afterwards, <br> went to teaching law schools<br> down in the south, in some islands<br> and travelled well<br>given the chance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This latter I consider one of my best experiences <br>and deepest lessons in human nature <br>behind the scenes, <br>and in the masses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I started and publish'd some of my works<br> in my native town, Katipunan<br>. Then returning to the city, <br> work'd on as a judge<br>and writer, <br>mostly prose, <br>but an occasional shy at </div><div style="margin:10px 0">poetry, till today</div><div style="margin:10px 0">waltzing with life</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496904" data-title="Waltz de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="I develop'd into a healthy, strong youth (grew too fast, though, was nearly as big as a man at 15 or 16. Our family at this period moved back to the country, my dear mother very ill for a long time, but recover'd. All these years I was down..."></div> </div> </div>

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