“She did not tell us stories that much, that’s why I don’t know much about her love story with Bonifacio,” Sevilla said. Sevilla recalled visiting Lola Oryang when she was six years old at her house in Malate. But for girls then like Sevilla, Oryang was their quiet lola or grandmother who had allowed them to play in the yard among bountiful fruit trees. Benedicto Sanchez, 86, a longtime resident of Zamora street, recalled playing outside and seeing Lola Oryang in the house wearing traditional attire. “The young ones – they may not know any more that the wife of Bonifacio onced lived here.

Source: Philippine Star June 15, 2019 16:00 UTC