THE FIRST four months of any given year in the Philippines can be safely and generally labeled as high school homecoming and reunion season. For us, overseas residents, it has become common news to hear about family, friends and acquaintances excitedly planning on a trip to the old country to attend and participate in this yearly exercise. There must be something enigmatic about high school, this phase of anyone’s educational journey that makes it better remembered, cherished and celebrated with so much fondness and nostalgia. But I’d rather not venture into any kind of speculation about this now. Are homecomings, jubilee celebrations and reunions relevant? Given today’s societal atmosphere, do they still occupy a space in the social value hierarchy? Or, have they become so securely entrenched in our customs and traditions that being so, their relevance and worth should be better left unchallenged? To partly answer the question, I am privileged to f...
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