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When light becomes too heavy
Manila Bulletin
|October 29, 2025
When I first read the news that Emman, the beautiful and brilliant daughter of my friend, TV host Kim Atienza, had passed away, I froze.
As a mother of a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old, my heart shattered. You immediately put yourself in the shoes of the parent—the unbearable thought of losing your child, the desperate wish that you could have done something, said something, held them just a little longer. No parent should ever have to bury their child.
This story is from the October 29, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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