Rosalie Comodas is born, grows up in Manila slums.
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President Ferdinand Marcos starts a program to send Filipino workers abroad.
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When Rosalie is nine, her father, Emet, takes a pool cleaning job in Saudi Arabia at ten times his Manila pay.
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Rosalie, 25, takes her first foreign job, as nurse in Saudi Arabia.
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