{"id":69,"date":"2008-01-06T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/wordpress\/20080106\/alone"},"modified":"2008-01-06T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T04:56:22","slug":"alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20080106\/alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I received news yesterday that the last surviving sibling of my dad has passed away. His name is Tito Narding. I was asked to inform everyone in the family about the news which I did so promptly. I got a few reply for the news and I have not realised how tragic this passing was until I checked our family tree and reflect on a conversation I had with my brother last year.<\/p>\n

Tito Narding has no known immediate family. My brother, Ruben Jr. told me last year, that Tito Narding came to him for help after being diagnosed with cancer. It is possible that he has a family but he may already have been abandoned. Last I heard, he was housed for palliative care in an institution in Cavite. Tita Bheck and Ruben would sometimes visit him there.<\/p>\n

My sister, Liberty, emailed me today – feeling sorry that he never met Tito Narding. He would be the closest person that would perhaps resemble our Dad. I was 3 years old and Liberty is just a baby when our dad died. Ruben Jr. was still in the womb – all 3 of us have no meaningful recollection of our father. Liberty made me realise that this was a missed opportunity for both of us. Ruben Jr. and Tita Bheck at least had the honor to extend physical contact with Tito Narding in his last year. His whereabouts would have remained unknown if not for his recent affliction. Perhaps, it was his pride that prevented him from seeking help until his situation became very desperate.<\/p>\n

What is just dawning on me now, as I receive reply of condolences, is not having someone to extend it to – Tito Narding lived alone and have died alone. I have not known him at all – and yet he left a stark reminder on how important the people around us really are.<\/p>\n

Call out from Neng Rivera-Jones<\/h3>\n

If anyone knows about our relatives from Madaluyong and Antipolo, please invite them to be in the distribution so we can connect and keep in touch with each other. Invite other family members and relatives, too. I am sure most have access to the internet especially the email. We want to meet everyone. Let’s keep our family intact. Update the family tree<\/a>, please and send some pictures, too. Thank you.<\/p>\n

God bless us all!<\/p>\n

Ate\/Tita Neng<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received news yesterday that the last surviving sibling of my dad has passed away. His name is Tito Narding. I was asked to inform everyone in the family about the news which I did so promptly. I got a few reply for the news and I have not realised how tragic this passing was… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}