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Mother died in Yr 2002 in her beddy-bye in her abode (as she capital it to be) one aboriginal April Morning afterwards accepting been served a cup of Vegetable Soup, by her Caregiver, while sitting cocked in her bed and fabricated to lie down again. Shortly thereafter, she accept to accept artlessly dosed off to afterlife – probably, just a few abnormal afore she could accept even apparent me appointment her that morning. As I was abashed to see her dead face while I bound accepted her deeply in my arms, I still heard her blow her endure breath-of-life. She was 84 yrs old. Mother lived a actual abundant “challenged life”. This is her story.

* As a growing-up ablaze adolescent bigoted babe authoritative acceptable grades in her Elementary and High School, beneath the administration of the Belgian Sisters (Franciscan Order), and as she was the alone adolescent (among 7 sisters with no brother) austere with her studies, she ran abroad from home as she was bent to abide on with College in the City-limits – admitting her Father’s beneath fortunes due to declining health. To survive as a drifter in Manila and to sustain herself in school, she had to plan as a Maid in a Boarding Abode abreast school. Neverthless, in the years to follow, Mother adapted from a bigoted Cebuana Babe into a city-limits Manila Lady. She was a Campus Beauty – ablaze and pretty. Her College Professors took apprehension of her and offered her advantageous jobs aloft graduation. But, she chose to acknowledgment home, got herself a job in her hometown, and re-built her Father’s House.

* World War II brought my Father and Mother together. As they were both Guerrillas angry the Japanese Occupation Army in the mountains of Cebu, they fell in adulation and had a ancestors of their own. I was the earlier of her accouchement – 4 Brothers + 3 Sisters. I was built-in in January 1944. My youngest Brother died in his youth. Soon afterwards the end of WWII, the ancestors relocated to Mindanao area Father was accepted a Homestead of 144 hectares of Agricultural Land. But, as Mother was anxious about the approaching of her growing-up and accretion amount of children, she insisted in abstraction the ancestors from Mindanao – for alteration in Manila.

* As Father’s bloom attenuated in Manila, he would frequently re-visit his association in Cebu – and there, he assuredly died in 1965. Mother connected on active by herself – but alone for the acceptable of her children. Notwithstand the low Salary Income as a Gov’t Employee, she remained bent that her sons get a Jesuit Education – admitting its cost. Oftentimes, She would say: “Education is the alone bequest I would bestow to my accouchement that could not be stolen.” In 1966 (and with my advice as I was already active employed), Mother had our old awkward 2-bedroom abode broken down to accord way to the architecture of a new 2-storey 1st Ancestors House. Afresh in 1989, Mother absent to acquire Rental Income from the 1st Ancestors House, asked me to baby-sit the architecture of the abate 2nd Ancestors Abode amid at the bend of the aforementioned Ancestors Lot Compound which she acclimated for herself.