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From the kitchen, I peek into the upstairs dining room, a rectangular room with huge windows that overlook the driveway.  This is the family dining area, closest to the kitchen and the scene of intimate dinners.  Papa Yos always sits at the cabezera, Mama Ing is usually in and out, making sure that the food is hot.  As a child, I sit next to Papa Yos, across from Mama Ing.  I play with this little crystal dish, wondering what it is, and  Papa Yos tells me it is a salt cellar. I remember Mama Ing urging me “to eat some more.”

The next room adjoining the dining room is the altar room.  The statue of the Señor Nazareno dominates the room while the statue of Señor Desmayo occupies one corner.  In the summer, old ladies in baro at saya come to pray novenas here.  During Lent, the two Señors are loaded onto decorated carros, part of the Lenten procession. Before any trip, I pray before the Santos for a safe journey.

I stop by the bathroom to wash my hands and I remember the red and black retro bathroom of old, so chic with black glass tiles and a vermillion red tocador and mirror. It was here that Mama Ing talked to me about being a lady, saying I “should always smell nice.”  She leaves a box of Spiro

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Leonor Rivera, Rizal's great love (from Austin Craig's book)

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A young Leonor as sketched by Rizal (from Austin Craig's book)

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Leonor Rivera

Jose Rizal's childhood love interest

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivera and the second or maternal family name is Bauzon.

Leonor Rivera-Kipping (née Rivera y Bauzon; 11 April 1867 – 28 August 1893)^[1] was the childhood sweetheart, and “lover by correspondence”^[2] of Philippine national hero José Rizal. Rivera was the “greatest influence” in preventing Rizal from falling in love with other women while Rizal was traveling outside the Philippines.^[3] Rivera's romantic relationship with Rizal lasted for eight years.^[4] She was immortalized by Rizal as the character María Clara in the Spanish-language novel Noli Me Tangere.^[2] Her original hometown is in Camiling, Tarlac.

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Born as Leonor Bauzon Rivera, a native of Camiling, Tarlac, was the daughter of Antonio Rivera and Silvestra Bauzon.^[1] Her father (whom Rizal calls "Uncle Antonio" in his letters) is a cousin of Rizal's father, Francisco Mercado.^[5]Austin Coates, Rizal's European biographer, described Rivera in Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr as a “pretty woman” whose physical features included having a “high forehead”, “soft and wavy hair”, a face that sported