Was there ever any doubt she’d cling on? I’ve gotten hoarse shouting it from the rooftops, feeling at some point like Cassandra given the gift of prophecy and the curse of not being believed.
Looking back, it was an accident waiting to happen. I do not just mean that in the sense that the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao was an event everyone knew would happen. That it was just a matter of time, place, and scale of atrocity.
“EACH person has a hidden hero within, you just have to look inside you and search it in your heart, and be the hero to the next one in need…. The hero in you is waiting to be unleashed.
Well, the other Manny invested in him early enough. Manny Villar descended on Manny Pacquiao’s training camp in Baguio before his fight with Miguel Cotto, which got him into a row with Freddie Roach. Roach had wanted to depart Baguio before the storm struck, but Pacquiao decided to wait for Villar instead.