Bath
Bath. Theirs may not be a well-appointed bathroom--in fact it is on the road outside their shanty--but a bath is a bath on a hot summer day. (Photo by Raymund Villanueva)
Bath
Ronalyn V. Olea | Mar 28, 2009
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