QUOTE : What Hero loved most wasn’t the cadre names people chose, but the word <i>kasama</i> itself: kasama, pakikisama. In Ilocano, the closest word was <i>kadwa</i>. Kadwa, makikadwa. <i>Companion</i>, but that English word didn’t quite capture its force. <i>Kasama</i> was more like the glowing, capacious form of the word <i>with</i>: <i>with</i> as verb, noun, adjective, and adverb, with as a way of life. A world of with-ing.