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Three Love Teams That Shaped Philippine History

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Juan Luna [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Love teams are staples of Filipino culture. Some fans would go to great lengths to support their favorite love teams even to the point of violent confrontations against detractors. This article talks about a different sort of love team which had as much effect on the historical events that led to the Philippines of today I was planning to write and publish this post for Valentine's day, unfortunately life interfered again and it didn't make it (as it always does when it comes to my writing). I wanted to write about the most enduring love teams in Philippine history to celebrate the "love" month. While browsing around the web though, I came across an article at filipiknow.net called "The Real Life Fairy Tale That Changed Philippine History Forever". The article talked about the love story of the future Spanish king and queen who met in secret, got married and united the kingdoms of Aragon and Cas...