“Tita Cory is gone,” wrote a friend on Facebook. It was inevitable; former Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino these past few months was slipping away in her battle against colon cancer. And while the worldwide Filipino community kept vigil, resigned to her predictable fate, her demise cast a pall of gloom, not only on the Philippines but around the world. As one newspaper headlined: “The world mourns the death of Corazon Aquino.”
To many Filipinos, she was Tita (Aunt) Cory. She was the aunt you would want to have—caring and motherly, yet stern and straightforward. But she was not one you would expect to lead the nation. Cory Aquino was the reluctant president. “What on earth do I know about being president?” she said when touted to run against Ferdinand Marcos.
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