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The pages of a book are called leaves and small sheets with writing are called leaflets because more than a millennium ago, documents were written on leaves. In southern India and Southeast Asia, they were written on palm leaves. A document was called pattra, which is Sanskrit for leaf. Several leaves were strung and bound together to form a book.
And so, this web page is a leaf, a pattra, a dahon. It is my opening page to our Philippine past, ang aking dahong pambukás ng ating nakaraán.
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