THE exchange professor from the United States was shocked on hearing her Filipino students in what is now the Philippine Normal University (PNU) merrily singing "Whispering Hope" a few days before December 25 more than 60 years ago.

That is not a Christmas carol, the American visitor told her sufficiently mortified class, but an ode to grieving well after the loss of a loved one.

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