SHE left us without as much as saying goodbye in one way or the other. Susan Calo Medina from time immemorial to her family and friends was full of the curiosity for life, endlessly energetic about its challenges and opportunities and visibly and contagiously enjoying its ways and byways.

I met her at the Assumption College dorm then in Herran (Pedro Gil now) when her mother, a future Congress representative, brought her as a l5 or 16 year-old to be a boarder with her 9 or 10 year-old sister in tow. It stood to reason, they came from Agusan in then faraway Mindanao. It was the 1950’s after all with few airports and much less air travel. People took the boat and came by sea.

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