I first met Henry Sy Sr. (fondly called “Tatang”) in the late 1940s after World War II. At that time, he owned the Park Avenue Shoe Store in Carriedo, the busiest shopping street in downtown Manila, while I was an impoverished grade-school boy hawking newspapers and shining shoes also in Manila.

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