Meet the luckiest man on earth – a man with four beautiful daughters. I was riding my bike down some rocky roads on the slopes of the Mayon Volcano when I heard an incessant beeping. I recognized it as a tricycle horn. Ahead of me I saw this tricycle, and the little girl in front of daddy was pressing down on the horn again and again and again. No one minded. I stopped to say hello, and that’s when I learned that these were the man’s four daughters. I called him a very lucky man. The girls were quite shy, but they listened intently as their daddy chatted with the foreigner on the bicycle. The woman behind the tricycle is the man’s wife and the mother of these four girls. She had just come up from a river down below with a big load of laundry that she’d just done. Now that she was finished, they drove off to have lunch. I assumed this man was a tricycle driver, but he had just borrowed it for the laundry run. His profession was actually that of a weaver. He wove baskets from local plants and sold them in nearby towns. It was a family business and his father had woven baskets and his father before him.

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