Teresita Marcos was doing the usual cleaning, when she saw the man whose wiry frame and bushy hair she recognised. He had been there the week before, when her mother, Maria Teresa, died. With the help of her son, Pedro Mendez, she made a tourniquet around his hand and wrapped it in cotton gauze to stop the bleeding.
Mendez had been in the room when a big group of friends gathered to visit the coffin. He pulled the cloth up over her mother’s face, and in one swift motion offered her a hug. “God bless you, a xi and then I will make sure you don’t suffer anymore,” he said.
The two women, who
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