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Along with "Feed Him For a Lifetime," "The Modern Marianas Home" really shows what I was like when I started the class. However, because this was the second story I had written, I had listened to comments my classmates had made on other presented works, adapting as needed. Because of this, "The Modern Marianas Home" is more refined than "Feed Him For a Lifetime."

When I was small, I always loved when my mother read stories before bed time. Like I've said elsewhere, I have, and always had, an active imagination. Some of the most imaginative stories my mother read to me were fables. It's no wonder I drew inspiration from them when writing "The Modern Marianas Home."  I hope readers will notice that I gave that quintessential "detached" feel to the piece. Also, I put in elements of repetition to mimic fables we tell children.

Yet, aside from drawing inspiration from fables, I also drew inspiration from my childhood. I grew up in two villages, As Teo and As Lito, that still have dense jungles to this day. I can remember hours spent walking through dense brush, just passing the time. There were also those trips my father, brother, and I would take through the jungle looking for wild hot peppers. This fondness for the jungle shows up in my writing.

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