HAD Vice President Sara Duterte simply answered Sen. Risa Hontiveros' query about her book, she may just have been spared from all the fanfare and social media noise about her book 'Isang Kaibigan.' All she needed to say was that the book was about friendship.

And that while her office is requesting for government to subsidize its printing and distribution to children, and that she would be extremely grateful if the Senate would endorse it to the House of Representatives, that in the end, it is the prerogative of the Senate.