'Galaw, galaw, para 'di pumanaw'

By Orlando Mercado

Sep 10, 2024 12:07 am

NOWADAYS, our generation, the baby boomers, do not need reminders of our mortality. I recently went to a wake and met a senior colleague whom I had not heard from for over two decades. His wife, who pointed him out to me in the crowd, was quick to whisper that 'he has dementia.'

I got the feeling that she wanted to spare me from being disturbed to find out that my former adviser was no longer the same man he was.

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