"Evangeline Rose Gil Eigenmann" is a Filipino people/Filipino actress of Kapampangan, Filipino people of Spanish ancestry/Spanish and Swiss American/Swiss German descent. She is known professionally as "Cherie Gil".

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It wasn't so bad for us. The hotel was at the far end of the cove. I didn't see the wave coming. I didn't see people drowning. But it was chaotic, and I was very scared for my kids.

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It's now part of my life. So I have to be grateful for it. I tend to forget that I was in the middle of a tsunami. Then I am jolted, and I realize that it did happen.

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