Nunilo M. de Leon

NUNILO This is a story that just has to be written. It’s about someone who lives such an outstanding and selfless life but keeps a very low profile making me feel uncomfortable just writing about him. He is unassuming to a fault. A voracious reader, up to this date, he even takes post-graduate online courses.

When Corazon my younger sister contracted end-stage kidney desease, Nunilo, my selfless elder brother readily donated one of his kidneys allowing her to continue normal life for an extra 25 years. His sacrifice enabled her to give birth to Celeste I will therefore request those closest to him to comment and in effect, add, if not approve this article about him. Being a writer-historian he introduces himself thus: “I was born in Manila, at the Mary Johnston Hospital on Quesada St., overlooking Manila Bay. The North Harbor area was still under the sea then and Calle Bangkusay, which is now some distance from the sea, was then the shoreline of Tondo