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Dylan Delvo

Co-founder and Executive Director of Little Manila Rising, a Filipino American historical preservation organization in Stockton, California

Jun 10, 2026

7:47
One letter was from a brother back in the Philippines.
7:50
You know, he was asking if he could send money so he could buy a suit for his wedding, right? And him trying to describe his fiancée.
8:02
It's such a contrast to the relationships that we have today, where we can just open up FaceTime and really talk to anyone around the world in an instant.

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24:56
[Instrumental music] Even the Daguhoy Lodge eventually went into foreclosure, and then just last year, it also burned down.
25:08
We're all about saving Little Manila.
25:11
It did feel like such an impossibility because none of us were millionaires, but these trunks and these items are something that we could actually take care of, right? And I know for Tony it felt this way, too, that it was, "Oh, this is something we can actually save."

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