Written February 2020 while visiting family and friends in the Philippines. I had just heard that Bong was dead. He did not die simply, he was shot. At close range. In a supposedly secure house. An assassination. The military will not release his body until someone authoritatively identifies him as Bong Bellen of Bacacay in the Province of Albay with a two-million-peso bounty on his head. Bong...
Bong. Or Alponso. Or Romano.
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