(December 10, 5:15pm)

Mr M, mom's faithful aide in the university, rings up the other day...and says the suit we had filed in the HC, had reached them already....the uni has been asked to reply in six weeks..

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He was happy the LE petition had come to him...and he also promised- unsolicited- of drafting such replies that would help release it early..

And though the gratuity suit wasn't likely to come to him, he said, he'd influence ppl to step up things there....

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He always helped mumma....who, in return, would bless him in kind or otherwise...but there was more to just business there...

If it were business alone, he'd not have bothered any longer...now that mumma's "gone."

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But he does.
So many others do.

The MMC ex-princi, who's mostly known as snob, does too.
Even the grocer.

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Such's been mumma...surrounded always with doting friends....she made friends easily...ppl wanted to company her, and support her....and learn from her...they admired her for her art, for her erudition...for grace, for courage, for endurance.....for everything!

unlike me, who doesn't have too many friends really.
who can't make friends too easily either.

And, who, though he can write well and make his mark, lacks those subtleties....at least that erudition...and that knowledge and appreciation of arts that separate the classy from mundane..yes, i have her genes, and hence have inherited some of it surely....but that's not really cultivated i guess..

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Will I ever be her?

Loved.
Admired
Sought-after.

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