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A difficult Christmas for Filipino families - 25 Dec 07

Each year, more than one million Filipinos leave the Philippines to work overseas, sending money back to their families. And every Christmas, thousands make the journey home to visit loved ones. But as Marga Ortigas reports, the pain of separation makes it a difficult holiday season for many divided families.

AlJazeera | December 25, 2007Watch more videos from AlJazeera

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