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The other Sunday, as I was sitting in our lanai sipping my favorite brew  watching leaves, stems and vines make an emerald riot in our small garden, my son Chino in the nearby dining room watching the prelims to the Pacquiao-Algieri bout and my husband Ed in the computer room watching it, too  I thought to myself that life is good and that my happiness is complete.

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One of my life’s greatest blessings is that my only child Chino has a great father. Chino was already gifted at birth because God gave him Ed.

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

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Anaheim, California — It was a homecoming like no other. I was going “home” to the city my parents Frank and Sonia Mayor called home for almost two decades, and which I called home for a few cherished vacations. You know how your parents’ home is HOME, how its very scent (my mom’s home was of gardenia and lilac potpourri) evokes “comfort” memories?

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I am a bush. Heavily-camouflaged by a sniper’s Ghillie Suit and betrayed only by the scarlet glint of my field binoculars, I cautiously observe our quarry.

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Ed Trivino is an old friend. We met when I was in high school at Maryknoll and he was a college freshman across the creek at the Ateneo.

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But these creative geniuses were in a party mode, and for good reason.
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One of my life’s greatest blessings is that my only child Chino has a great father. Chino was already gifted at birth because God gave him Ed.

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

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Anaheim, California — It was a homecoming like no other. I was going “home” to the city my parents Frank and Sonia Mayor called home for almost two decades, and which I called home for a few cherished vacations. You know how your parents’ home is HOME, how its very scent (my mom’s home was of gardenia and lilac potpourri) evokes “comfort” memories?

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Ed Trivino is an old friend. We met when I was in high school at Maryknoll and he was a college freshman across the creek at the Ateneo.

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But these creative geniuses were in a party mode, and for good reason.
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