MY aunt, Venecia Manibay would have turned 80 and was planning a grand clan reunion in Barangay San Jose, Tacloban City next year, an event we all looked forward to.

But she and her ailing husband, Felipe, were among those savaged by the seven storm surges of as high as 15 feet on that fateful night of Super Typhoon Yolanda on November 8.

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