Susan Kelleher







Alex Tizon wrote the Atlantic Article
Alex Tizon was formerly a Seattle Times reporter.
Alex Tizon passed away in March 2017. 
He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of 
Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. 
For more about Alex, please see this editor’s note.





Eudocia Tomas Pulido the "slave" purchased and held as a slave for the rest of her life.
  First by the grandfather, then his daughter, Alex Tizen's mother.
  “Lola,” grandmother in her native Tagalog tongue.
   Born March 1, 1925, in a one-room house near the village of Mayantoc, north of Manila. 
   The third of six children born to subsistence farmers.
   Died Nov 7, 2016 at age 86.
   "She lived with us for 56 years."