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Still sweet at 49
Manila Bulletin
|April 26, 2025
Traveling up in the air on a plane with journalists, Pope Francis was asked what he thought about same-sex unions. As the story goes, the Pope replied, without batting an eyelash, “Who am I to judge?”
My favorite couple, “Mader” Ricky Reyes and Cris Aquino, have been together for 49 years. In all that time, according to Cris, “Never a harsh word, never a loud word” between them. For the last 49 years. At Mader’s birthday party two weeks ago in their palatial home, Alta Vista, high up on a hillside with a rear balcony looking down on SM Marikina, Cris and Mader mingled with their friends from way back, it was like a reunion.
This story is from the April 26, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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