Free Preview: Playmate of the Month June 1982 - Lourdes Ann Kananimanu Estores
Lourdes Ann Kananimanu Estores seems to have sprung forth from a fantasy recorded in a shipwrecked sailor's log: "After 40 days on the open sea, clinging to what was left of my lifeboat, I washed up on a South Pacific beach. I lay there virtually lifeless for I don't know how long. Suddenly, a native girl appeared; a dark-haired angel so beautiful that all thoughts of thirst and hunger left my body...I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was not hallucinating..." Lourdes (Loor-dess) is no hallucination. She exists in the town of Haleiwa, on the island of Hawaii. Part Hawaiian, part Filipino, part Spanish and part Tahitian, she is one of 22 members of the Estores family, a good chunk of the total population of Haleiwa. Her father was an Army musician and a part-time fisherman. <br> At the age of four, Lourdes used to accompany her mother to cockfights, where they would sell the day's catch. At night, the family would gather to play music. those were especially happy times for her, fostering a deep love for music and dance; Bach and Bartók became her favorites .Her days were spent in school or frolicking on the beach. The uniqueness of her upbringing and her environment has not been lost on her. She is a child of paradise and knows it. <br> "This <i>is</i> paradise," says Lourdes. "<i>Everything</i> is perfect here!" Everything? "Well, we do sometimes live in fear of the tsunamis, the tidal waves. I've been through two - the sea gets very quiet; the air becomes still; the birds d...
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