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Thank you for your special report in the wake of Corazon Aquino's passing [Aug. 17]. She is one of the few people in world history who became a President by fate and not by ambition — a woman who changed Asia and a pioneer who led her people and triggered a revolution with little more than her faith in God. She was a talisman of peace and democracy and will be missed. Goodbye, Madam President. Alex Pakingan,
Cavite, The Philippines

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