Nestor

Nestor is eating a banana.

Nestor is eating pancit Malabon.

Nestor is going to eat adobo.

Nestor ate adobo.

Nestor is eating a steamed bun.

Nestor is eating chicken adobo.

Nestor will eat chicken adobo.

Nestor ate paella.

Nestor ate noodles.

Nestor is eating ube.

Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.