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Hindi ko masabi na minamahal kita. Hindi ko masabi iniibig kita. The translator should struggle with those two words: minamahal and iniibig.

Both words are about loving.

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The intensity of one over the other belongs not to the heart but to the mind that will declare the difference contentious…and unnecessary.

But I am listening to the voice singing those words. The voice is brought in by sonorous strings, followed by a wind instrument and that voice, half-pleading, half-declaring.

The guitar comes in as the other instrument floats above the plucked strings. Something else starts to rise above the manmade tools of music, an instrument older that the history of human caring and passion.

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It is that voice. It does not deny the guitar its sweetness because by itself the voice has its own presence. The frustrated architect of words should listen now. The voice initiates a hushed divulgence as it touches the word minamahal, and with a restraint