80-year old ‘Pabling’ marries 21-year old ‘GF’
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
HIS children and grandchildren were against the idea, but 80-year old Pablo de Asis, nicknamed Pabling, a widower, went on to marry his girlfriend of two years, 21-year old Jennifer Cagaoan.
“…I love her so much and she loves me so much, too. It’s like you and me against the world,” said Pabling, a retired policeman from Barangay Bonuan Binloc who is also known as the Eddie Garcia of Dagupan for his slick fashion style.
The couple, who call each other “Babes”, got married last July 30 in a civil ceremony officiated by Mayor Benjamin Lim.
“It was a love at first sight… She may be young at age but she thinks and acts maturely,” De Asis narrates in an interview at his residence two days after their wedding.
Their first scheduled wedding date, July 20, proved ominous as the groom-to-be did not feel well and could not get up from bed.
Invited guests and other people thought the bride-to-be had been abandoned by her man, but Pabling promised that they would push through as soon as he gets well.
And so July 30 it was that became the big day, although Pabling still plans on having a church wedding.
Their love affair started when they met at Jennifer’s friend’s house in Bonuan Binloc, at a time when she had just stopped schooling as a sophomore Nursing student at the Lyceum Northwestern University.
Jennifer considers Pabling her “knight in shining armor” because he came, like in a song, “at the right time in my life”.
After they met, Pabling helped Jennifer land a job related to her course in the medical missions during the campaign of now 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia. After the campaign, Pabling again helped Jennifer get a job, which she has kept up to the time of their wedding, at the CSI Mall owned by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.
Pabling said he saw in Jennifer an attitude he was looking for a woman.
Jennifer, for her part, has assured Pabling and his family that she is not after his material possessions but simply feels secure with him.
To those who doubt her, she says, “They will see later how I love you. Your help to me cannot be repaid by money.”—Eva Visperas
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