Before the August 5, 2009 funeral of his mother, there was no public
clamor for Senator Noynoy Aquino to run for president in 2010. Neither
was there any reason for his youngest sister, popular television
personality Kris Aquino, to discuss his love life on national
television after its details leaked out in different broadsheets and
gossip rags.
He had been living a quiet life, or at least as quiet a life as someone
named ‘Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III’ could live. A cursory check
of headlines over the years reveals how the spotlight seemingly shone
on Noynoy only incidentally; his name was mentioned mostly in stories
about the political crusades of his mother, former President Corazon
‘Cory’ Aquino, against Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada in 2000 and Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo in 2005, or in items about the twists and turns of
Kris’s love life and how these affected the Aquino family.
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