If there is anything in Sen. Grace Poe that can resonate with me in a personal or emotional way, it is her family name and origins. Although her father, the late movie king Fernando Poe Jr., was born in Manila, his native roots were traced to the village of Kawayan Kiling in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, where his similarly iconic father, Fernando Poe Sr., and other ancestors were born. It was also there where I was born.

If I feel a certain kinship with the Poes, it is because we share a common origin. It is also because they had brought honor to our hometown by their larger-than-life achievements in their acting career.

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