After my graduation at the age of 18 from Pasig High School, I bought home two important things dear to my life --- the High School Diploma and the “hand” of a sweet Pasiguena. I happened to board in a house just across the street where the beautiful Pasiguena lived who refused to go back to El Buenconsejo College when we became acquainted. But, after two years of engagement, the U.P. Board of Regents transferred the College of Veterinary Medicine from Padre Faura to Los Banos. Emilia, (the name of my sweetheart) did not want me to go. She thought Los Banos is far beyond the horizon and she advised me to transfer to Law. That was not materialized when I was told by Atty. Arsenio Santos, of the Provincial Board that I have to pay back the one year pension granted me by the Rizal Province to study Veterinary Medicine. The problem was settled through a secret marriage and when our parents discovered our secret marriage, we remarried at the Pasig Catholic Church on June 19, 1921. According to my relatives in Malabon, it was a test case to find out of a married college student could still pursue his studies. That was proven when in the results I got first place in the Civil Service and second place in the Board Examination for veterinarian in May 1923.
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