That may have been
the last time we saw him – it’s been so long we have forgotten. We still love
him that much, whatever happened to him.
Had he taken
drugs? We don’t know – none of his brothers (4 others) and none of his sisters,
have taken drugs. Me neither, and neither my wife. If he had taken drugs, that
was entirely his own thinking.
But drugs or not,
we have been trying to locate – it’s only now that I thought of social media as
a call center.
His radiant face –
look at the photograph again – reflects his hopeful thinking. He attended the Cahbriba Alternative School, which was
founded by Cielito Habito, one of
the Outstanding Young Men in Economics, and one of the bright heads of PH
President Fidel Valdez Ramos, and
a respected Inquirer.Net columnist
today.
The Frank &
Ampy Hilario family is now scattered all over half of the western world. Except
for Jennifer, the all-around sister
I may call her today, they all have their own families now. Tina the eldest lives in Toronto City, Dida in New York City, Dinggoy in Malolos City, Teresa in Quezon City, Jomar in Taguig City, Paul in Los Baños and so with the rest
of us: Jennifer, Daphne, Neenah. (Ernest Charles+), and Graciela.
We miss Edwin so
much, but we have had no resources to trace him – even while waiting for him to
contact us somehow.
In vain up to now.
With all our
children, I wasn’t that type of father who was close and played with sons &
daughters – I have always been a writer and have not stopped being one up to
now. (Didn’t you notice? The title of my blog is “The Editor In Chief” – having risen from writer to editor to
desktop publisher from 1970 to 2008 – as a teacher, I taught myself my word
processing, layouting, working with images, desktop publishing, up to blogging.
I have not been close to any of our 13 children – the writer in me is almost
always occupying my soul.
No, we don’t have
a writer in the Dionisio Hilario-Sixta
Agapito family. I was bitten by the writer’s bug probably in high school
yet, at the Rizal Junior College
(RJC) High School Department, as RJC had such a full library of books by
renowned authors, and magazines: Post,
Look, Life, National Geographic, and above all the Reader’s Digest! (Thank you for my
writer’s life, Reader’s Digest – you opened my eyes to my genius.)
Back to
the main topic: If you’ve seen Edwin, please message me on Facebook. We would
be glad you did!@517
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