MANILA -- Just months before the COVID pandemic drew the curtain over our 'normal' lives, I received an intriguing phone call.
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Outgoing President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III (right) meets with his successor President Rodrigo Duterte at the Malacanang Palace on Jun. 30, 2016. (File photo by Getty Images)
MANILA -- Just months before the COVID pandemic drew the curtain over our 'normal' lives, I received an intriguing phone call.