So now Kuya... now that you have come home and you are now finally with the Lord and your Tatay Enrico, he and He can now forever watch you again. While we request that you and your Tatay, will now have the chance to continuously watch over all of us: Jonah, Nanay, Nini, CJ, Gabby all your cousins, your Titas and Titos, and all of us as well as in the extended Tribo family. 
Goodbye and may God keep you forever in His eternal embrace. Rest in Peace Kuya Jerico. I love you anak.🙏🏼

-Ninong2 / T2C

Goodbye Kuya Jerico, my inaanak:.
I visited your dad the other day Kuya, and I honestly (cried at his grave and) told him I am so sorry that I was not able to watch you closely as I wanted to. Just like CJ and Nini, I will never be able to watch and monitor his or her every move. It's just impossible!

As we take you to your final resting place, now together again with your Tatay, I fondly remember your late Tatay, Rico. He was telling me how, when you were born how he would watch you, literally stare at baby you as you lay sleeping. Mesmerized! You see when CJ first became 'the unborn' inside of his mom, Claire. Your Tatay was the very first person to learn the good news of me being a father, finally! He said. I showed him the picture of CJ, the ultrasound picture, as well as its recorded US sound, perfect rhythm of his whooshing fetal heartbeats. 

Sabi niya, wala pa yan, wait till you see him out and became a man, a grown human being. (He never saw him. They have not seen each other alive. Eventually, CJ was born in September 2008. Rico passed while CJ was only 6months old-unborn, June of the same year.) Your Tatay who BTW, raised you without raising his hand or his voice-didn't believe in corporal punishment. (I wished I can also be that patient with my kids.)... 

Tatay was narrating how he would spent sleepless nights watching you sleep-- without sleeping himself, kwento pa niya. Just literally watching you Jerico. The feeling was exhilarating and at the same time exhausting... (he would apply mosquito spray like crazy or match Katol when he had a chance) while you slept just wondering about how his son would grow up and live, so many thoughts but in the end, he would live it up to Him and mainly surrender. 

So many questions, yet many answers still to be heard, but as he always said, God is good. God will provide. Always. But never, in his right mind enter, the thought of how he would die. He just left it all up to Him, our Lord. And pray. 🙏🏼
-T2C/Ninong1

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8 février 1988 – 5 juillet 2025

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