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Photo by Marlon Cagatin, December 13, 2015

Thursday, February 18, 2016

The old school service driver of Saint Paul Pasig passed away two nights ago after being in a prolonged coma. He was Angelique's and Aubrey's driver since they were in kindergarten, and Angelique is now 20 going on 21 while Aubrey is 16 going on 17. For the past year or so, the driver's son has been doing the service in his place.

I'd never really met the old driver except to see him on the compound whenever he was asking to see Ivy for our monthly payment, and whenever he was taking my granddaughters to our doorstep under an umbrella on rainy days. He was a real gentleman, and treated his passengers like ladies. He would even carry their schoolbags for them. He loved my granddaughters for some reason, for it was he who gave us Cerefina and Kichiro Mayuzumi.

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