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Where First Love Lived : Casa de Segunda and Rizal

One never forgets one’s first. Especially when one is eighteen and one meets the fair maiden, already engaged to another. Thus began the story of the first love of our national hero, Jose Rizal, and his doomed yet serious affair of the heart with Segunda Katigbak. She later married Manuel Luz, and died in 1943.… Read More Where First Love Lived : Casa de Segunda and Rizal

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