Guest Author: James Serrano My name is James Zeus Ferrer Serrano. I am the son of Roseo and Antonette Ferrer Serrano, two Filipino immigrants who came to America in 1990 with only the clothes on their back, the tsinelas on their feet, and the promise of a mangandang kinabukasan for their children kept securely in their carry-ons.
My father comes from Batangas, a province in the Philippines where he was poised to take on the family business as his community’s premier and most trusted tailor.
However, after Mount Pinatubo’s cataclysmic eruption in 1991, his dreams of growing the business through exportation extended far out of his reach.
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