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Alice Guo can’t remember it anymore. At least, that’s the phrase — Hindi ko na po maalala — that the deposed Philippine mayor repeated so often and so implausibly at a May hearing just outside Manila that it lit up social media with memes.
Facing accusations of fraud, human trafficking and espionage, the 38-year-old Guo could recall neither where she was born, nor why the birth was registered 17 years late (the same was true of her brother). She couldn’t remember her school, or the
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