Happy Heavenly Birthday Manuel Perseveranda! 🙏🏽 ♍

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Vallejo, CA • September 2026. Happy Heavenly Birthday Manuel Perseveranda! Virgo season lunch, perseveranda family, kapamilya, overlook, vallejo california, filipino american family archive.
KAPAMILYA • VALLEJO, CA • SEPTEMBER 2026

Happy Heavenly Birthday Manuel Perseveranda! 🙏🏽 ♍

My dad's Virgo-season birthday lunch for Tito Ed and Tito Maning, hosted by Jian.

Manuel "Tito Maning" Perseveranda at a Virgo-season birthday lunch, Overlook, Vallejo, California
Jian hosted Perseveranda Carminers.

Virgo Season

I couldn't locate the original file on my hard drives so I'm not sure what year this is. But it is mid-September.

My dad suggested a birthday luncheon for his Virgo brothers and me at Jian's house. We all typically got together at my birthday party.

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Filipino families often turn one birthday get-together into a lunch for everyone born close together — a Virgo table instead of three separate parties.

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🇵🇭 Tagalog Word of the Day
Alaala — ah-lah-AH-lah
Memory, or remembrance.

Remembering Tito Ed (September 4) and Tito Maning (September 13).

Thanks for the bday treat Dad!

Source: Personal family photograph and firsthand account, J.F.R. Perseveranda. Related PinoyBuilt kapamilya coverage: My Virgo Titos: Eduard and Manuel, Thanksgiving 2007 and Tito Maning: Hindi Kita Malilimutan.

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