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Marlyna O. Sevilla
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Marlyna Orat Sevilla was born in Bogo, Cebu, Philippines, in 1935. As a child, she showed signs of autism; one was her delayed development in spoken language. Before the age of five, she could only say five words—the very basic ones like “mama,” “papa,” “ata” (give), “tate ” (hot chocolate), and “Zoom” (Rose, her elder sister).

Marlyna messed up her mother’s crochet work so many times that she was given her own yarn and hook to practice making a chain. The white yarn turned black, but the chain had perfect tension. Time for real crochet—granny’s square. Crocheting has a special and sentimental value for her. She learned it before she talked normal and remembers her hands were busy while her tongue was idle.

During the World War II Japanese occupation of the Philippines, she heard the bombing and the cries of terror and horror, and saw a sea of evacuees running from the enemies, and the glittering bayonets day and night, without water and food. She survived the war.

Two years into Philippine liberation, her parents separated. For a while, Marlyna was also separated from her siblings and her mother. Her broken family experienced unhappy and dark years. She remembers those days when the next meal was a guessing game and she had to scrape shrimp paste from the leaf wrapper.

She migrated to Canada in 1967. While working with the province of Ontario for more than twenty-five years, she took courses in business administration, journalism/short story writing, and leadership training from Toastmasters International. She considers the Service Excellence Award she received from the Ministry of Housing in recognition of her excellence in the delivery of customer service as her crowning achievement.

Marlyna believes that family unity is the profound foundation of a functional community, that family should not be marked by division but by a vision of familial love.

She is currently in Bogo with her husband as snowbirds.

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