One call from cousin Tina is all it takes to set the plan in motion, inviting ourselves—Sylvia, Ninit, Tina and me—to lunch with a favorite uncle, Marcos. As it happens, we are, by his own public declaration, his favorite nieces from our paternal Rafael Roces-Inocencia Reyes line.
Tito Anding’s death on May 23 has brought the brothers’ bald head count to four—two older ones, and two younger—from...