00:00I remember your story because at one point, it was told in Sambayanan that your own father left the Philippines when he found out that you were dead.
00:20When I was born.
00:21When you were born, right? So he left the country.
00:24I think you were 18, 19 and you found your father. What is the story?
00:31Well, it's like that.
00:33Is that you?
00:34Yes. When I was born, he went home to Tacloban and my grandfather told him that I wasn't alive.
00:41Because according to my grandmother, who is typically Spanish, when she found out that I was alive,
00:49my father left and went back to America.
00:53I grew up and she didn't know that I existed and that I was alive.
00:58So when I found him, when I was 18, right after I was born, I took him to Angeles.
01:04Because my mother told me that he had a sister there, Aunt Alice, who was also half-American.
01:09So when I got there, I saw Aunt Alice and that's when I met my cousin, Antonio Aquitania.
01:15That's her mom.
01:16Aunt Alice is American. We're four.
01:19But the dad of Antonio is Filipino.
01:22Although my dad was half-American.
01:24Because the pure American was my grandfather, who was an Air Force pilot in the Clark Air Base that day.
01:30So I saw that I still had relatives there and then I finally got to talk to my dad.
01:36How was that conversation?
01:39I was very excited.
01:41It was like my life was completely filled with emptiness.
01:47Then I was okay.
01:49You know, if you're not used to people, even if they're your parents, you just need to get to know them.
01:55You're okay.
01:56You don't need to look for them.
01:59I'm with him, I'm next to him.
02:02Because he brought me home right away.
02:05After three months, when we talked, his family came home from the United States.
02:12So we met, I hugged him.
02:15It's like I went back to being a little girl.
02:18Look at the story of our life.
02:21I'm growing up and he doesn't know that he has a son like this.
02:27It's so thick.
02:29He has a son like this.
02:31Then suddenly, he has a grandchild.
02:35He has a grandchild, Daniel Padilla.
02:37It's good.
02:38The story is dramatic, but you're still smiling.
