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A girl must avert her eyes from her father when she speaks to him.


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One Response to “A girl must avert her eyes from her father when she speaks to him.”

Comment from lito
Time August 28, 2010 at 2:31 pm

RE:”A girl must avert her eyes from her father when she speaks to him.”

this one is not a law, it is an old Filipino tradition of respect to parents.

No longer applicable now because teens are corrupted (“westernized”)

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