You could go to Forbes Park, where private security forces clutching automatic rifles guard the gates of palatial estates, and come back with a photograph that says, 'This is Manila'. Or you could take your camera to the Pasig River, where people bathe on the banks just below their wooden shacks, and say, 'This is Manila.' And either way, you would be right. As alternately rich and poor as the city finds itself, as problematic and chaotic as it seems, Manila's spirit is still something...
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