He never wanted the presidency.
That may be the most revealing thing Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told Gary Valenciano.
Before politics, there was the rain: a schoolboy from La Salle running to an empty lot to play with friends. There was music, science fiction, machines taken apart simply to see how they worked.
Then came 1986.
The palace was gone. Hawaii was the new reality. Washing dishes, doing laundry, buying groceries -- ordinary things became lessons in starting over.
There are no good old days, Marcos said. Time moves in one direction.
Perhaps that is what Unshaken, Gary V.โs conversation with him, ultimately revealed: not a different president, but the complicated distance between the man we see and the life that made him. | JM
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