She had a small army of some 15 male cousins who stayed with her and decided where she could campaign.
Instead, a male cousin offered the formal apology on her behalf.
She would also tend to call her older male cousin "kuya".
Before the night was over, they killed the man, his girlfriend, a male cousin and three teenage girls getting ready to go out dancing.
He regularly got into fights with his younger brothers and male cousins.
He couldn't help but wonder how she was doing, since her father's estate had gone to a male cousin.
And a young male cousin collected two cards for himself because he liked the photos.
His male cousins now call him a pimp, he said, meaning "a guy who has a lot of girls."
My brothers and male cousins pelted along without any of the others, led by none other than him.
Father, both brothers, three uncles and all his male cousins.