Prepubescent

Growing up as a prepubescent in the Philippines, I read a lot of American-style comics, which fortified my liking for science fiction. I remember stories about an abandoned Martian civilization, the Green Lantern superhero, The Incredible Hulk, and many more.

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On the 1st of November of 2021, I joined Hans the Netherlander at his table in the cafe. The day after Halloween was rainy outside. Whilst I was drinking iced green tea, Hans gave me a piece of brown candy. He took out a jar of peanuts and offered me, but I said that I get pimples from peanuts. As a child in Quezon City, my family had a peanut farm near our lot; we boiled them, and I ate, as I was not allergic as a prepubescent. We then talked all about astronomy: exoplanets, asteroids, and the moons of the gas giants. Titan, a moon of Saturn, is specially stunning with its black methanic rivers, lakes, and seas. Hans said that the next fifty years will be exciting for astronomy. As we talked, a big handsome man with a muscular build came in, ordered coffee, and left.

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I started conlanging as a prepubescent with words like "múninghay," "brábintai," and "numnumbúbit," which respectively related to the full moon, dragonflies, and drinking vitamins.

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The belief in evolution was taken for granted, as I was a prepubescent in the Philippines and North America. The popularity of the sci-fi franchise Planet of the Apes reinforced this idea.

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