My bilas, Justice Juanito Bernad, is now in a wake in the City of Dipolog he loved wisely and well. He had wed Patria, the eldest sister of my Dulce. Names taken from Rizal’s Last Farewell. Their father is in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Decency was his middle name.

Jaime Opinion and I differed in the Marcos years. But, when I got out of the hospital in 2007, following our unsayable family tragedy, he arranged to see me at home, a gesture I won’t forget, as I picked up the pieces of my shattered life.

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